THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

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

[28th July 1937]

Dear Gerald

Many thanks for all your information. I think you had better send 2 more songs to Foss¹ to make up the 20.
I am sending my screed to Blom² today.
I tried to see the Sib pfte duet & solo³ at Chesters but failed. Do you happen to know who is agent in London for Sibs publishers?
Yrs

RVW

1. Hubert Foss of Oxford University Press, which was going to publish a selection of Gurney’s songs.
2.  ‘Ivor Gurney: the musician’ Music & Letters vol xix (1938) p.12 ff. Eric Blom was editor at the time.
3. i.e. arrangements of Sibelius’s symphonies, published by Breitkopf & Härtel (Nos 1-3), Schlesinger (4) and Hansen (5-7).