THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

The White Gates,
Dorking.

July 4 [1946?]

Dear Frank

I learn from Miss Riddick¹ that the metronome marks on my oboe concerto are all wrong – Whether that is my fault or the copyist’s I can’t say as I have no copy here.
Any how the tempi should be approx
 

Could you have these corrected?²
Yrs

R. Vaughan Williams

1.  Kathleen Riddick, conductor of various amateur orchestras and choral societies, including especially the Riddick orchestra, living at Ashstead, Surrey.  See Who’s who in Music, London 1962.
2.  In the original VW wrote the notes with stems downward.