THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

The White Gates,
Dorking.

Sept 1 [1946]

Dear Herbert

I am so glad you like “Corvinus”¹ We have decided to do it.²
Here is the Tomtit³ also my English B minor – it is full of mistakes – I could not get it published so we have decided to have some photographic copies made.
– We are only doing 4, 6, 8, 11, 20, & 24 this time.⁴
Yrs

RVW

1.  Check reading.
2.  Howells was presumably to be one of the judges at the Leith Hill Musical Festival in 1947 – check And Choirs Singing.
3.  Bet Meeszenestje by Julius Röntgen, of which VW had made an English adaptation as ‘Tom Tit’s Nest’ – see VWL989. Röntgen, a relation of Bessy Trevelyan, had visited her at Dorking in 1930.
4.  See VWL2137; VW had arranged Bach Mass in B minor in an English translation.