THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

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

June 19th 1954.

Dear Mrs Koussevitsky,
It seems churlish to have to refuse your generous and flattering invitation to do honour to a memory of a musician for whom I have such admiration; but I find that if I promise work that is unfinished, or only in prospect, the result is fatal, and it would be a poor tribute to the memory of your husband to send you anything but my best.
Yours sincerely,
R Vaughan Williams