THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

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

August 15th 1955.

My dear Michael,

Sometime ago I was asked to write an article about Sibelius for the RCM magazine.  (Some time before your invitation):   I had quite forgotten about it!  Now the demand for it has come and I am obliged to fulfill it.  I do not see how I can write two articles about Sibelius.  Do you think I might, with the leave of the RCM, reprint the enclosed?  Perhaps you will think it not solemn enough for the Daily Telegraph, in which case I must do it again…but perhaps I can use some of it?¹
Love to Eslyn
Yrs

RVW

1. VW’s piece for the Royal College of Music Magazine was reprinted as “Sibelius” in National Music and Other Essays, 2nd ed., pp.261-64. On Michael Kennedy’s invitation to contribute a piece for the Daily Telegraph see VWL3109.