THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

The White Gates,
Westcott Road,
Dorking.

Dec 4. 34

Dictated

Dear Vally

I am sending you full score (illegible) and my 2 piano version of Running Set.¹
No necessity of course to use my 2-piano version except where it fits in with your ideas.
What is wanted is a brilliant concert piece for the Rae Robertsons to play.²
Yrs

RVW

1. Vally Lasker and Helen Bidder’s arrangement of The Running Set, Catalogue of Works 1933/3, was published in 1936.
2. The duo Rae Robertson and his wife, Ethel Bartlett, had a large repertoire of 2-piano music written or arranged for them.