THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

The White Gates
Dorking

Sept 4 [1945]

Dear Gerald

I have discovered a set of parts of the Concerto (3.3.3.3.2.)¹.
I should like to give these to you if they are any use.
The only thing is, we must not be unfair to the O.U.P. So I suggest that each time you give a public performance with those parts you sh^d pay a hire fee to the O.U.P. (incidentally I shall get a fraction of that).
If you approve of the scheme, let me know & I will put it before Peterkin.²
My love to Joyce
Yrs

RVW

1. Finzi had asked for a set of parts for VW’s Violin Concerto, Catalogue of Works 1925/7.
2. Norman Peterkin, formerly Assistant Editor and now in charge at the Oxford University Press Music Dept., following Hubert Foss’s resignation. For VW’s letter to him see VWL1900.