THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

THE WHITE GATES,
WESTCOTT ROAD,
DORKING.

June 7, [ca 1931]

Dear Maud
I don’t like Mullinar’s arrangement, but I think your emendations make matters worse – So I set to work after breakfast and did them myself.  Here they are – I don’t know whether you’ll like them.  If you don’t you must go back to Mullinar.  Of course I don’t know the dances or the pace of the tunes. In the Morpeth Rant I have done 3 versions of the B music for you to choose from.
P.S.  I have put Morpeth Rant into D
Yrs
RVW¹

1. This letter concerns Michael Mullinar and Vaughan Williams’s musical arrangements for Twelve Traditional Country Dances (Catalogue of Works 1931/1) published in 1931 by Novello & Company. The ‘Morpeth Rant’ is no. 2 in the collection.