THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

The White Gates,
Dorking, Surrey.

3rd May, 1950.

Dear Frank,
I do not think we need keep so very mum about the P.P.¹  All that Webster² said to me was that they were not announcing it yet but he had no objection to my telling my friends.
Steuart Wilson’s new appointment may affect things materially.³
Yours sincerely,
R Vaughan Williams

(R. Vaughan Williams).

Alan Frank, Esq.,
Oxford University Press.
38a, Soho Square,
London, W.1.

P.S. I have written to Mrs Wegener⁴ – I think the idea of the PP Schotts is good⁵

1. Pilgrim’s Progress
2. David Webster, General Administrator of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, which was considering presenting the opera.
3. Steuart Wilson
4. Unidentified.
5. Perhaps a proposal to publish Pilgrim’s Progress in Germany, or for a separate publication of the libretto. In fact the Oxford University Press published a German langauge edition in 1952.