THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

[November 1926]

Dear Mr Fly¹

Many thanks for your kind invitation – My wife & I hope vy much to be able to come on the 18th Dec:  but I cannot be quite sure.  As regards “Hugh” – I have not been able to do anything yet – & I am planning a more comprehensive revision. So please do what you like with your version at present.  What has happened to the boy with the charming Tenor voice who played Hugh?²
Yrs sincerely

R. Vaughan Williams

1. Director of a performance of Hugh the Drover given by Caterham School which had been given on 26th and 27th March 1926.  See VWL603. The VWs had been invited to a production of Bethlehem by Rutland Boughton at the school on 18 December 1926; in the event they did not attend (see VWL613).
2. VW had been struck by one of the singers in the performance – see VWL603 postscript.