THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

The White Gates,
Dorking,

12th February, 1948.

Dear Frank

Thank you for your letter about the Symphony.  I will try and make the alterations as few as possible, but it is not any good its going out wrong.¹
I have had a letter from a Miss Rees which I enclose.  What do you think about it?  Could we do anything?
I do not like to ask the Smith’s to lend their copy which probably has all their own marks in it.²
Yours sincerely

R. Vaughan Williams

Alan Frank, Esq.,
Oxford University Press,
38a, Soho Square,
London, W.C.1.

Encl.

P.S. I have not had copies of the motet yet – I have particularly wanted to send one to Armstrong before the official one.³

1.  Frank had written warning VW to expect proofs of the study score of the Sixth Symphony, Catalogue of Works 1947/3, in early April and hoping to publish by the end of the year.
2.  Miss Rees had presumably asked to see a score of the two-piano version piano concerto, Catalogue of Works 1931/3, which had been made for Cyril Smith and Phyllis Sellick.
3.  Prayer to the Father of Heaven, Catalogue of Works 1948/1, dedicated to the memory Hubert Parry, which was given its first performance by the Oxford Bach Choir conducted by Thomas Armstrong in the Sheldonian Theatre on 12th May.