THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

The White Gates
Dorking

[December 1933]

Dear Gustav

I was so glad of your letter – it is largely good news – but 6 weeks!  I must certainly come and see you, if it is allowed.
The “nice” tunes in the Finale¹ have already been replaced by better ones (at all events they are real ones).  What I mean is that I knew the others were made-up stuff and these are not.
So there we are!
Now I must tell you of a dream I had the other night – I was giving Imogen² a lesson & she showed me a Passacaglia on a theme on which you also had written a Passacaglia….

[Yrs

RVW]

1. i.e. of the Fourth Symphony.
2. Imogen Holst