Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to George Chambers
Letter No. VWL4732
Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to George Chambers
Letter No.: VWL4732
The White Gates
Dorking
[early 1950s]
Dear Father George
I should like to see your essay very much.
I think it very likely that the plainsong as we sing it now is very different from what it was when the church first took over.
By the way you ought to get in touch with Duncan Jones (Dean of Chichester) who had a young French friend who has some weird but interesting ideas on the origin of plainsong
But being French he is probably no longer available
Yrs sincerely
R Vaughan Williams
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Date estimated; before 1953 and presumably this was a draft of his eventual publication in 1956 (see VWL4735), for which VW wrote the Preface.
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Shelfmark Copy:MS Mus. 1714/1/32, f. 2