Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Lucy Broadwood
Dear Miss Broadwood
Thank you so very much for your very kind card. I expect you know yourself what a great pleasure it is to receive praise from those whose opinion you value. I did go to ‘Everyman’;1 I thought it most beautiful; however if my epilogue represents my impressions of it, it must have been prophetically.
I’m afraid a good deal of the last movement does not ‘come off’. I am going to try and pull it together a bit.2
Yours very truly
R. Vaughan Williams
1. Possibly the 15th-century morality play.
2. The last paragraph probably refers to Heroic Elegy and Triumphal Epilogue, which VW revised in August and September 1902.
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