THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

The White Gates,
Westcott Road,
Dorking.

June 17th [1934]

Dear Mr Thompson

I have noted the date Thursday September 27th of September.¹ As to conducting, if I conduct the two new items as well as the Symphony it will leave Sir Henry² hardly anything to conduct which I am sure the public would not like.  But I will do whatever he and you think best in the matter.³
You can call the two new items first concert performance in London.⁴
Yours sincerely

R Vaughan Williams

1. sic.
2. Sir Henry Wood. The symphony was VW’s London Symphony.
3. On the concert see R.V.W.: a biography, p.202.
4. The two new works were The Running Set and Fantasia on Greensleeves. – see VWL1260.