THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

From R. Vaughan Williams,
The White Gates,
Westcott Road,
Dorking.

January 27 [1938]

Dear Dr Müller-Hartmann¹

I venture to write to you at the instigation of our mutual friend Miss Imogen Holst.
I should very much like to make your acquaintance. Could you come to lunch with me at the Royal College of Music, Prince Consort Road near the Albert Hall at 1 o’clock next Wednesday February 2^nd? It would give me great pleasure.
Yours sincerely

R. Vaughan Williams²

1.  A German composer who came to England in 1937. At this time he was living in Dorking with the Hornsteins, friends of the VWs. He did much copying for VW. In the hand of AVW , signed by VW; during absences AVW often wrote business letters on VW’s behalf (see VWL1360 – ‘I’ll now write answers according to yr instructions’).