THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

The White Gates,
Dorking,
Surrey.

24th December, 1952.

Dear McKie

About the arrangement of the “Old Hundredth”, I think you are right that it is too elaborate.  Besides if the congregation are going to start singing Verse 4 after the choir will sing alone, we shall have to give them a good start.¹
I think the Archbishop is liturgically wrong not to have an “Amen” after the Doxology, but of course he must have his way.²
Yrs

R Vaughan Williams

Dr. Wm. McKie,
33, Greycoat Gardens,
London,  S.W.1.

1. This concerns music for the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. See VWL2555.
2. Geoffrey Fisher was Archbishop of Canterbury at this time.