THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

From R. Vaughan Williams,
The White Gates,
Westcott Road,
Dorking.

Jan 20 [1940]

Dear Major O’Donnell¹

Thank you very much for your letter.  I sh^d like to cooperate again if possible. I have asked the OUP² to send you the score to my “Running Set” for you to look at and see if it w^d arrange for M.B.  – Meanwhile I will try & do another suite and think up some more march tunes.  Meanwhile I sh^d like if possible some other composers folk-song arrangements to be done, if there are any – Has not Gerrard Williams done a Folk song suite for M.B?³
As regards my suite, if it is wanted soon would it be possible for me to make a short score and the M.B. arrangement to be done by Gerrard Williams or Wright?⁴
Yrs sincerely

R Vaughan Williams

1. Director of the BBC Military Band.
2. Oxford University Press.
3. See VWL1359. “M.B.” is military band.
4. On all of this see VWL1617. VW had given an illustrated talk with the band on 2 January 1940, and was to give a talk on Folk Song, illustrated with tunes played by the BBC Military Band. This took place on 27th March 1940 at 9.35pm.