THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

The White Gates
Dorking

April 3 [1952]

Dear Mr Kennedy

It was a great pleasure to meet you & your sweet wife in Manchester¹ & I hope to do so whenever I visit there.  Curiously enough when I came home & was looking over some old papers I came upon the letter you wrote me some years ago.²
I was delighted & amused at your account of your wedding hymn.³  I hear you wrote a criticism of my “S.S”⁴ in a Manchester paper – May I see it?
Yrs sincerely

R Vaughan Williams

1.  VW was in Manchester to conduct two performances of A Sea Symphony with the Hallé Choir.
2.  See VWL2091.
3.  The Kennedys had chosen ‘For all the Saints’ sung to VW’s tune Sine Nomine, as a change from the more usual ‘Come down O Love Divine’ sung to VW’s Down Ampney.
4.  i.e. A Sea Symphony (Catalogue of Works 1909/3).