THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

The White Gates,
Dorking,

24th November, 1948.

Dear Mr. White,

Many thanks for your letter. I had hoped to see you this afternoon at the Council Meeting, but I fear I cannot come after all.
It is most kind of you to be arranging this and please ask anybody you think would be useful or really interested.¹
I will, if I may, write to my friends myself. There will be about six of them. Do you think 6 o’clock is a good time? The work takes two hours to play through, and shall we get people to stop on till past 8 o’clock to hear it? Would not earlier or later be better? But you know best about this. If we had it earlier I think we might risk the interlopers—they would soon get tired and go away.
Yours sincerely,

R. Vaughan Williams

(R. Vaughan Williams).

P.S. Since writing this we have talked over the telephone

Eric White, Esq.,
Arts Council of Great Britain,
4, St. James’ Square,
London, S.W.1.

1.  The Arts Council was arranging an informal ‘run-through’ with piano of The Pilgrim’s Progress (CW1951/1).