THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

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

April 14 [1935]

dictated
Dear Adrian
On the whole I prefer ‘Job’.¹  For one thing I want to make a few slight revisions in the Symph² and would therefore like, if the occasion arises, to hear it again in England before we shove it off on the foreigners.
Also, I feel that Job is less like what they are accustomed to, which I feel is what we ought to give them – but do as you like really.  These considerations are not important.
I am not quite happy about the rest of your programme – but daresay that is inevitable.
Could you not do Bax 3rd Symphony instead of Tintagel – and the P.F. Ballet³ or Egdon Heath or Hammersmith instead of the Fugal Overture – which is not one of my favourite works.⁴
Yrs
RVW

1.  Catalogue of Works, 1930/5.
2.  Symphony (No. 4) in F Minor (Catalogue of Works 1934/13).
3.  The Perfect Fool.
4.  Boult was performing a concert of British music at Salzburg.  For Boult’s reply see VWL704.