THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

The White Gates,
Dorking,

24th June, 1948.

Dear Rutland

Thank you so much for your letter.¹  I am very glad if I have been generous to anybody – it is the least one can do to one’s fellow men.
I much appreciate your appreciation of my work.  I hope writing music has not become a bad habit with me.
I wish we could meet and have a talk.  We should probably disagree violently over most things, but that would only add a zest to our conversation.
Yrs

R Vaughan Williams

(R. Vaughan Williams).

Rutland Boughton, Esq.,
Kilcots,
Newent, GLOS.

1.  Possibly one of appreciation following the first performance of the sixth symphony.