THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

The White Gates,
Dorking.

March 16 [1949]

Dear Frank,

Please let the young woman know I never show any one my unfinished or “scrapped” compositions.¹
Yrs

R. Vaughan Williams

1.  Frank had written to VW on 14 March saying that a Miss Elsie Payne was writing a thesis on his music under the supervision of Gerald Abraham and had asked if she could have access to ‘any of your early and scrapped compositions and sketches’.