THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

From R. Vaughan Williams,
10, Hanover Terrace,
Regents Park,
London, N.W.1.

February 3rd 1955.

Dear Frank,¹

Please send copies of Along the Field² and In the Spring³ to Leonard Isaacs, at Yalding House, Great Portland Street. He has written to say they are doing a programme of my songs in May and asked if I had anything new. Neither of these, I think, has had a London performance, so I have suggested them, and told him I am sending them.⁴
Yrs

RVW

1. Music Editor at Oxford University Press in succession to Norman Peterkin (1947); Head of Music from 1954 until his retirement in 1975.
2. Catalogue of Works 1927/1 (but not published until 1954).
3. Catalogue of Works 1952/1.
4. Although seven of the songs comprised in Along the Field had been performed in London at the Grotrian Hall on 24 October 1927 they had been extensively revised before publication in 1954. The performers at the concert on 26th May 1955 were Nancy Evans and Leonard Hirsch.