THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

28.8.56

Thank you so much for this address – I will write after the symphony.¹
Ralph is terrifically well. I think that those weeks in bed were a wonderful restorative. We go to Gloucester on Saturday, till 7th – Majorca on 9th address Hotel Bendinat, Palma de Mallorca,  Spain, but I’ll write from Gloucester. Genia² writes very happily from Italy. So all is well here. I liked the Day Lewis broadcast very much too.³
Love to you both from both of us.

Ursula.

1. The Eighth Symphony (Catalogue of Works 1955/3) was to be performed at the Three Choirs Festival at Gloucester.
2. Genia Hornstein.
3. The poet Cecil Day Lewis and his wife, Jill Balcon, were friends of the VWs.