THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

From R. Vaughan Williams,
The White Gates,
Westcott Road,
Dorking.

July 18 [late 1930s]

Dear Howes
I send on Miss Gilchrist’s¹ screed with a few notes of my own.
Also P.G. whole² quotation which confirms what we F.S.³ collectors already know that the flat penultimate 7^th is natural to the folk and disposes of all the “Musica Ficta” nonsense which editors of early Scottish Psalters talk
Yrs
RVW

P.S. I think this quotation ought to go into the Journal

1. Anne Geddes Gilchrist, the folksong collector.
2. ‘P.G.’ identified as Percy Grainger.
3. Folk song