THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

The White Gates,
Dorking,
Surrey.

25th June, 1952.

Dear Frank

Thank you very much for the amusing picture of Larry.  I saw a notice of the concert, but not in that particular paper.  I should like very much to see that.
As regards the note on my “Elegy”, if it is not too late I think you might enlarge the note thus:
“The speaker must start each sentence exactly where indicated in the score.  After that he can be free, but should try as far as possible to make each sentence synchronise with the orchestral accompaniment.” (perhaps it is too late – if so never mind)
May I add a message to Mr. Foote asking him to have the hired copies of my Symphony No. 4 altered according to my directions.  The expense of this will, of course, be mine.
Yrs

RVW

Alan Frank, Esq.,
Oxford University Press,
44, Conduit Street, W.1.