THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

The White Gates,
Westcott Road,
Dorking.

April 5 [1950]

Dear Douglas

I am ashamed of myself “Pure carelessness, sir” as Dr Johnson said. What I evidently did was I started in a routine way marking “Trb & Tuba” – then found no use for the Tuba & forgot to mark it out! Also please make the harp passages into harp music¹

Yrs
R Vaughan Williams

1. In response to queries arising from Douglas while he prepared the score of Folk Songs of the Four Seasons. See Douglas, Working with Vaughan Williams, p.18