THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

[1927?]

Dear Maud
I’m going through the dances & making bassoon parts – these will have to be copied – most of the existing parts have no bowing or extant marks – Miss Avril¹ ought to go carefully through them & the wind marking them – any orchestra unless it has marks plays everything like the Hallelujah chorus.
If you care to come & hear my new tune tomorrow do come – but it will be rather bad as the chorus have not had it for a 4tnight & they forget so quickly
I send you a copy to amuse you
Yrs 
R Vaughan Williams

1. Elsie Avril was a violinist with the English Folk Dance Society.