THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

The White Gates,
Dorking,

23rd July, 1948.

Dear Frank,

                                      “Job”

Atkins seems to think that a Saxophone will be “difficult to obtain”,¹ he also says that in the O.U.P. catalogue the saxophone is marked as being dispensable, so I have decided to cut the number where it occurs.
Would you ask your librarian to mark a cut from the end of Scene 5 the eleventh bar of Ll (full score, page 66) up to letter Pp (full score, page 74).  Please ask him to make the cuts very clearly.  I would suggest pinning paper over the part which is not to be played.
Yours sincerely,

R Vaughan Williams

(R. Vaughan Williams).

Alan Frank, Esq.,
Oxford University Press,
38a Soho Square,
W.1.

1. Ivor Atkins was arranging a performance of VW’s Job for the Three Choirs Festival at Worcester; see VWL2778.