Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Maud Karpeles

Dear Maud

I don’t like Mullinar’s arrangement, but I think your emendations make matters worse – So I set to work after breakfast and did them myself.  Here they are – I don’t know whether you’ll like them.  If you don’t you must go back to Mullinar.  Of course I don’t know the dances or the pace of the tunes.  In the Toxteth (?) Rant  I have done 3 versions of the B music for you to choose from.
P.S.  I have put Toxteth (?) Rant into D

Yrs
RVW¹

1. This letter concerns Mullinar and Vaughan Williams's musical arrangements for Twelve Traditional Country Dances, published in 1931 by Novello & Company.