Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Katharine Thomson
The White Gates
Dorking
Dear Mrs Thomson
It seems a long way for you to come to Dorking from Birmingham but of course it wd give my wife and me great pleasure & we could talk over your project. So will you suggest a day convenient to you.
As to coming to Birmingham to conduct - I hardly ever go away for the night now - so we had better leave that in abeyance.
I should like to meet your baritone one day & hear him sing.1
Please give my fond remembrances to Dr and Mrs Stewart2.
Yrs sincerely
R. Vaughan Williams
1. Martin Marshall, a member of the Clarion Singers (ex inf Katharine Thomson). See VWL 451006.
2. Katharine Thomson's parents.