THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

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

Feb 8th [1936]

Dear Mr Wilkinson

Thank you very much for your letter about the ballet.  I have got so many things on hand at present that I must put off considering revision of the ballet until later – so I will keep your interesting suggestions by me for the present – Many people have told me what a beautiful production they thought it was and I entirely agree with them – and we two are perhaps the only people who realize how much more could have been done both in the production and the music if we had had more time.¹
Yours sincerely

R Vaughan Williams²

1.  Frederic Wilkinson, headmaster of the Polytechnic Secondary School, had produced a revised version of the ballet On Christmas Night, Catalogue of Works 1926/2, at Cecil Sharp House and had written afterwards to VW making some suggestions about the scenario, see VWL866. VW did not reply fully to him until August 1937, see VWL1203, which is also printed in Catalogue of Works p.122-3.
2.  Signed by VW.