THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

The Old Barn
Holmbury St Mary
Dorking

[September 1928]

Dear Maud
I am quite ashamed at myself not answering before. But I went away to Gloucester¹ – & when I got back got immersed in a new Job – & now I see by your letter it’s too late before we go away next week – we go for a week to Littlehampton – & then go for 2 months to a villa at Dorking!!!² So you must come to us then if you will
– I want to hear about your adventures at Oldham³
Yrs 
RVW

1. For the Three Choirs Festival in early September 1928.
2. “Glorydene”, St Paul’s Road, Dorking.
3. Karpeles had been collecting folk tunes in Oldham. They are documented in her papers from February 1929 at the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library.