THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

From R. Vaughan Williams,
The White Gates,
Westcott Road,
Dorking.

[15th July 1936]

Dear Diana

LHMC¹ Towns want to do part of Parry’s Judith – Novellos will print us off 350 copies for £45 & 500 for £55 – we shall want about 350 – Do you think it would be suitable for your festival² (all the last part from “The coming of the Assyrians” onward, with a few cuts – about not as hard as Brahms Requiem). Will you let me know.
Are you coming for our party at Hereford – it will be lovely if you do.
Love from

Uncle Ralph

1.  Leith Hill Musical Competition. There was a performance of Judith at the Leith Hill Musical Festival on 9 April 1937.
2. Diana Awdry had established a musical festival at Stinchcombe.