THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

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

[?About March 1937]

Dear Rothenstein

I fear I must ask for my screed back.¹
I find from a mutual friend that one passage might give him pain – and I naturally do not want to do that to a friend I admire so much.
Yours

R. Vaughan Williams

1.  VW had written an appreciation of Donald Francis Tovey to accompany a portrait drawing by Rothenstein published by Faber & Faber in October 1937 in Contemporaries: Portrait Drawings by Sir William Rothenstein with appreciations by various hands. The dating of this letter assumes it was written about six months before publication See VWL1250.