THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

From R. Vaughan Williams,
10, Hanover Terrace,
Regents Park,
London, N.W.1.

January 3rd [1958]

Dear Michael & Eslyn

Thank you both for your beautiful letter of friendship.  I will not say more now except to tell you that Malcolm is having a run-through of the new symph. on March 21st at St Pancras Town Hall at 2.30. and he says I may invite some friends, so do you and Eslyn come if you possibly can.¹
I know exactly where En Saga ought to have stopped.  The rest is a great pity as the two ladies said of the lower part of Botticelli’s Venus in Forster’s novel.²
Love from us both
RVW

1.  Malcolm Sargent’s rehearsal of the Ninth Symphony (CW 1957/3) is described in RVW p.390 and WVW p.342.
2.  VW is referring to Sibelius’s Op. 9.  The Forster reference is to A Room with a View.