THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

The White Gates
Dorking

Aug 13 [1942]

Dear Harold
Many thanks.  I am now hard at work on it.¹ I have made 4 versions
(1) Unison community version
(2) 2 parts for girls schools
(3) 4 part unaccomp. mixed voices
(4) do do [i.e. 4 part] mens voices
-When finished I will try OUP our luck with O.U.P.²

1. The song The New Commonwealth (Catalogue of Works 1940/3), an adaptation of music from VW’s Prelude to the 49th Parallel.
2. The publisher Oxford University Press. See VWL1681, VWL1662 and other letters. OUP did publish the song in all of the arrangements listed by VW.