THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

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

May 11, 1953

Dear Cudworth

This is certainly my writing – I wish I c^d write as well now.¹
May I be allowed to say how much I like the Fen libretto.²
Yrs ever

R. Vaughan Williams

1. A VW manuscript had been discovered in the Pendlebury Library and had been sent to VW to verify as to whether it was in his autograph.
2. Cudworth had written the libretto for Patrick Hadley’s cantata Fen and flood, a work for male chorus which VW later arranged for soprano and tenor soloists and mixed chorus; Catalogue of Works 1956/6.