THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

The White Gates,

Wednesday [August 1940]

My Dear

I think of you on the I. of W. with anxiety – we spent 6 hours in the dugout the other day – a few bombs – but nothing very near. I quite forgot to say my dear about the Prom¹ – that I long ago promised to go with some very old friends to it – not knowing that you w^d be in London – I forgot to tell you before – But I suppose by your new plan that you won’t be coming up at all – but perhaps later who knows?
I am reading Roger Fry’s life by Virginia Woolf – very good – all his doubts and difficulties remind me of many that I went through.
Love from

RVW

1. Presumably the projected Promenade performance of Six Choral Songs (Catalogue of Works 1940/1) which was cancelled because of air raids.