THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

The White Gates,
Dorking,
Surrey.

September 3rd 1942

Dear Calvocoressi,

I am so sorry to hear that you have been ill, I do hope that you are feeling better now.
As regards the songs, I should like, sometime, to have a shot at them, but it is quite impossible just yet; so if you are in a hurry I shall quite understand if you would prefer to send them to someone else.¹
Yrs

R Vaughan Williams

1. Calvocoressi had apparently written to Rubbra, who made a start in setting the folksongs; his sketches for “The Gifts” are in a wartime notebook now at the British Library (Add MS 62662). Eventually this was revised and, along with two other settings, published by Lengnick in 1977, as Three Greek Folksongs, op. 151.