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

An early letter from VW to Holst
Editor's note: I have made a few guesses here!
If VW hadn't have been such a good composer
he definitely could have had a career as a cartoonist.