THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

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

October 3 [1939]

Dear Mrs O’Neill

I thought your letter to the ‘Times’ was splendid – I at once wrote myself to the ‘Times’ to back you up but by that time the BBC had nominally repented in sackcloth & ashes & my letter was considered to be no longer to the point so was not printed.¹
With kind regards
yrs

R Vaughan Williams

1.  Adine O’Neill had apparently written to The Times complaining that the BBC was playing an excessive amount of recorded as opposed to live music and using an insufficient number of live outside artists. See also VWL1600.