THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

13 Cheyne Walk,
Chelsea, S.W.3.

[Late 1922]

Dear Mr Burnaby¹

If Mrs Vulliamy will send me her libretto I will see if I can do anything²
Yrs sincerely

R. Vaughan Williams

1. Later Regius Professor of Divinity at Cambridge.
2. Mrs Edward Vulliamy had devised a libretto in the subject of Old King Cole and the proposal was that VW should write a ballet, which he did – for orchestra and chorus. On the genesis of the ballet see Kennedy, Catalogue of Works, pp.94-96. The ballet is Catalogue of Works, 1923/2.