THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

[1896?]

Thanks awfully for the photograph. I will send you one when I get one if I may. You ought to have been taken astride your trombone – & I am going to be taken perched on an organ¹ pipe

1. The drawing is a sardonic allusion to the fact that Holst earned extra money by playing the trombone in seaside bands, while VW’s first job was organist at St Barnabas, South Lambeth.