THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

13 Cheyne Walk
S.W.

[About 1st October 1906]

Dear Mrs Hadley

I can let you have the vocal & dancing part of the music quite soon now.  I don’t quite understand who sings what in the “Vanity Fair” Scene.  Do the 4 men sing “Let charming Bacchus” – I don’t know the words – I suppose they [are] real Elizabethan –  in which case they w^d have a tune of their own – can you tell me where I shall find it?  Or if the wandering musician is supposed to sing it then I think we will put a real folk-song instead – and what has “Down among the Dead men” to do with it?
Yrs very truly

R. Vaughan Williams

P.S.  I see I have not answered all your questions.  I do not know any of the players you mention – but if they are good players it sh^d be all right.  I shall meet my orchestra on the 10^th1  & can get some more then.

I’m afraid I can’t suggest any one for the songs – unless possibly Alison Philips w^d – though I don’t think I can ask him²

1. October 10th
2. The writer Walter Alison Phillips