THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

The White Gates,
Westcott Road,
Dorking.

July 31st. 30

Dear Vally

I don’t know whether this will catch you before you go off on your holiday. But do you want a holiday task?  A pfte solo version of Job is wanted for rehearsing the dances – w^d  you feel inclined to undertake it?  Something simple & practical – I know it can’t be all got in but something that will give the essentials.  I can’t spare the full score – but I think it w^d be all right to do it off the p^fte duet copy.¹
Yrs

R. Vaughan Williams

1. The arrangement for piano was published by Oxford University Press in 1931 as Job: a masque for dancing. A few pages of a two-piano manuscript score survive in the British Library (Add. MS 50411) which may have been the copy from which Vally Lasker worked. Most of the letter is printed in R.V.W.: a biography, p.184.