THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

13 Cheyne Walk
SW 3

29/8/23

Dear Sir Alexander¹
Morris² has passed on to me the enclosed correspondence – I feel that anything which makes George’s work better known is worth doing – I w^d suggest your writing to the man & telling him to send you his arrangement and that if you approved of it you w^d give him leave to publish it.
Morris writes “I have none (views) to speak of, slightly against perhaps, if anything”
Yrs sincerely
R Vaughan Williams

P.S. I do hope Miss Mavor’s marriage will not rob her (and you) from the Bach choir!³

1. Sir Alexander was the father of the composer George Butterworth, who had been killed in action.
2. R. O. Morris, composer and close friend of Butterworth, and brother-in-law of VW. The enclosures do not survive, and the work arranged has not been identified.
3. Dorothea Mavor, step-daughter of Alexander Butterworth ad his wife Dorothea, had recently married William (later Sir William) Croft. VW was conductor of the Bach Choir at this time.