THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

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

[15th February 1940]

My Dear

I am so sorry
But nothing can prevent their being good poems.¹
We sent the ‘Observer’ one² to the Warden³ and he approved.
Let me know when you come to London⁴ & when you go to Oxford.
[Unsigned]

1. Presumably the poems had been rejected for publication.
2, See VWL1357.
3. Adeline VW’s brother, H.A.L. Fisher, Warden of New College, Oxford, 1925-40.
4. At the time UW was living on the Isle of Wight where her husband was stationed.