THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

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

February 24th 1955.

Dear Michael,

Thank you for sending me your article which I like very much, with the exception of two places.  You have already discovered that it was I who conducted the first performance at Norwich.¹  Secondly, I do not like the idea of calling the bird’s requiem in Jane Scroop “a parody”.  Jane and I both take it quite seriously… she believed that her sparrow had a soul, and we have no proof that she is wrong.
My love to Eslyn,

RVW

P.S. My love to you both, too.

U.

1.  The first performance of Five Tudor Portraits (Catalogue of Works 1935/5) was at the Norwich Triennial Festival on 25 September 1936.  See VWL1115.