THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

The White Gates,
Westcott Road,
Dorking.

[? early November 1952]

Dear Roy

Herewith the corrections
Gus & I between us seem to have done pretty well – By the way in justice to Gus he did not copy the full score¹
So glad you can come to Manchester
I think we will stick to Antarctica the other presumably has not the same connotations in Italian!²
Yrs
RVW

1.The copyist Gus de Mauny.
2. According to Roy Douglas (Working with Vaughan Williams, p.52) the Oxford University Press finally decided the title should be ‘Antartica’ not ‘Antarctica’.