THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

The White Gates
Dorking

Dec 26 [ca 1940]

Dear Maud

Those lovely red scizzors – I couldn’t wait till Xmas but have been hard at work snipping paper and cardboard – I ought really to send you ½d but that I believe our friendship is unsnippable¹

love

RVW

1. According to tradition a knife or scissors given as a gift should be ‘crossed with silver’, i.e. money given in return, to show it is not a threat.