THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

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

30th July, 1947.

Dear Adrian,

Of course I only meant a message about rehearsal for the secretary. I thought, if necessary, it might strengthen your hand but I never meant it to be passed on to you.
I welcome with great gratitude your idea of running through the Symphony¹ when the parts are ready, which ought to be before Christmas. Then I shall be able to find out whether any or all of it wants rewriting. The O.U.P., quite rightly, I think, do not want to make copies of the score till I am quite sure that it is correct and I cannot do that until I have heard it.
So they are refusing all bookings for the present. Therefore, the sooner we get this trial trip through the better.
Yrs

R. Vaughan Williams

1.  The Sixth Symphony (Catalogue of Works 1947/3).