Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Leonard Isaacs (BBC)
The White Gates
Dorking
Dear Mr. Isaacs
As regards the music of the 49th Parallel1 it won’t do as it stands, but I propose to make a Suite out of it. If I could get it ready in time would you care to do a selection from that?
The only thing is that I have promised Muir Matheson that if I made a Suite out of the music he should conduct the first performance - At present the score is at Denham - I have asked the secretary to return it, but have had no answer as yet .
I was interested in what you tell me about my song being broadcast to Sweden.2
Yours sincerely
R Vaughan Williams
1. Catalogue of Works 1940/3.
2. England, my England which had been broadcast on 16th November.
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In the hand of AVW, signed by VW.