THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to William Rothenstein

Letter No. VWL756

Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to William Rothenstein

Letter No.: VWL756


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

July 10 [1935]

Dear Rothenstein

Please forgive my delay in answering your letter with its kind offer of a portrait for the proposed Holst room.1   Our committee did not meet till quite lately and I told them of your kind offer which they accept with gratitude.2
Yours sincerely

R. Vaughan Williams


1.  The Holst Room was to be a memorial to Gustav Holst at Morley College – see Michael Short, Gustav Holst: the man and his music, p.331.
2.  See VWL732.