THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

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

[15th September 1939]

My Dear

I’ve just been reading Byzantium¹. How dear of you to send it. We shall probably be living on potatoes next year, so I’m digging some of my field into a potato patch. It makes me nice and sleepy at night.²
Love to you, my dear

RVW

1.  The poem by Yeats.
2.  See R.V.W.: a biography, p.229.