THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

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

June 21, [1931]

Dear Maud
I have taken nearly all the quavers out of Kitty and The Wedding – The result seems to me rather bald, but if it is at all like what you want that is all that matters.
If these won’t do you had better do them yourself & send them down to me to have their faces washed.  I also send an extra B for ‘Corn Rigs’. In Steamboat I have taken the octaves out of B2 which I hope will make it right.
I also send ‘The Soldier’ – I have used the first version which I much prefer – but if you will want the 2nd version I think my accompaniment will fit it.
As to ‘Sylph’, ‘Pipers Fancy’ & ‘Morpeth’ I thought you had kept them – Anyhow I cannot find them here – but I will have another look  –
Yrs
RVW
P.S. will you add the phrasing

1.  VW was making tune arrangements for Twelve Traditional Country Dances (Catalogue of Works 1931/1, published by Novello & Company).