THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

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

Jan 23 [1940]

Dear Major O’Donnell¹

Many thanks for your letter.² I have discovered a very rough copy of the orch. score of “Running Set” which I enclose – I enclose also a pfte arrangement to refer to when the score becomes too illegible.³
Yours sincerely

R. Vaughan Williams

1. Director of the B.B.C. Military Band.
2. See VWL1364 and also VWL1359.
3. See Catalogue of Works 1933/3. The first performance of The Running Set had taken place on 6th January in the National Folk Dance Festival at the Royal Albert Hall. There had been discussion about a series of programmes on the BBC on which traditional tunes would be played by military band (see VWL1617); possibly O’Donnell wished to see if an arrangement of The Running Set might be feasible.