VAUGHAN WILLIAMS MANUSCRIPTS. Vol. LXXVIII A, B. 'Songs of Travel', Book I of the song-cycle containing 'The Vagabond', 'Bright is the ring of words', and 'The Roadside Fire'. Words by Robert Louis Stevenson. Orchestral version, 1905. First performed with piano accompaniment at the Bechstein Hall, London, 2 Dec. 1904, and published in this form 1905. See also Add. MSS. 50480, ff. 13-14, 76-81b; 59796, ff. 7-9; 62906, ff. 7-12; 72073, ff. 9-12. Kennedy, 1982, pp. 27-9; Dickinson, 1963, pp. 151-3.