THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

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

July 19th [1936]

Dear Foss

Many thanks for your letter about the P.K.¹  It seems impossible to make a financial success out of an opera.  It is very kind of Sir Humphrey Milford² not to take up my friend’s guarantee.³
I am so sorry to hear of your illness. I do hope a good rest will put you right – we shall miss you badly.
Yrs

RVW

1. VW’s opera The Poisoned Kiss.
2.  As Publisher, head of the publishing side of the Oxford University Press.
3.  OUP published The Poisoned Kiss; or, the Empress and the Necromancer in vocal score in 1936. Clearly they had been offered a guarantee against loss.