THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

The White Gates

Dec 1 [1950]

Dear Foote
Here with the proofs – Pianoforte please not piano¹
Also I think Mrs Wood’s initials ought to go at the end. Please see that the printer does not make it V.W or N.W.
Yrs
R Vaughan Williams

P.S. I think it sh^d be Cassiopeia

1. Proofs of The Sons of Light, with a text by Ursula Wood, which was published in January 1951. The text was:

The milky way
is broad and clear;
Charles’s wain
and Cassiopeia,
hunter and hero,
the empty chair
and the crown of stars
are gathered there.