Tidied up from the 1979 original I did as part of my college course, with accidentals respelled. The dedication on the original manuscript reads: "For Anne in fulfillment of a 4 year promise"

It goes on:

Dear Miss Robinson - (our piano teacher in Grimsby) My second manuscript that I used for photocopying, I sent Anne the original pencil manuscript made from my sketches…. then it mentions 4 photocopies floating around the music department, one of which was "on its way to Weinburger which will no doubt shortly be returned with regrets but so many friends thought I should send it off that I thought I had nothing to lose…." Well, of course it neither got rejected or accepted and for all I know may still be festering there…. Can't say I blame them, it looked rough and the work of an amateur, but it had something they very obviously missed! Sibelius, MP3s and computers have done an awful lot for young composers in the way of presentation….