THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

[8 August 1947]

My dear V.W.

Many thanks for your letter.¹  I shall be rehearsing my 3rd Symphony for Gloucester on Sep. 2 & 3, so there’s no difficulty whatsoever in coming to your rehearsal on Sep. 3 at 10.40.
I’m so glad you enjoyed my programme the other day, & I was interested at your reaction to the Psalms.  Are they as lean as all that?  Textually, yes: but I didn’t think the musical content was.
After much thought, I’ve decided to take the music lectureship at Oxford offered to me by Westrup: so that now I’m afraid I cannot take any more private pupils in London.
Recently, two that you very kindly sent along to me I’ve had to turn down.
Looking forward to seeing you on the 3^rd.
Yours very sincerely

[Edmund Rubbra]

1. See VWL3621.