Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Adrian Boult (BBC)

Dear Adrian

Many thanks for your letter.
I know Toveys death was announced over the wireless - but of course I referred to notice in the musical programmes¹
As far as I remember both Elgar & Delius had memorial concerts and you did not wait for their birthdays.
I do realize that you have to be “particularly careful” over your programmes
Is this why you deliver symphonies by Gounod and unknown works by Svendsen to mention only a few names?
Yrs

RVW

1.  Donald Francis Tovey, the writer on music, had died on 10 July.