THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

The White Gates,
Dorking,
Surrey.

11th March, 1953.

Dear Frank,¹

When you always treat me so generously and courteously I hate making a complaint, but I found when I went to a rehearsal of my “Sinfonia”² with the B.B.C. Orchestra yesterday that the O.U.P. had provided a set of parts which had not the latest corrections and checkings, and we had to spend a good deal of time getting these right.
I hope the parts sent to America and the Continent have got these latest corrections in. They were made, if I remember right, before the London performance.³
Yours sincerely,

RVW

P.S. I want the wind machine to remain anyway

Thursday

1. Music Editor in succession to Norman Peterkin (1947); Head of Music from 1954 until his retirement in 1975.
2. Sinfonia Antartica (Catalogue of Works 1952/2).
3. Frank was able to re-assure VW about the parts. See VWL2671.