Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Arnold Barter
Letter No. VWL2801
Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Arnold Barter
Letter No.: VWL2801
From R. Vaughan Williams,
The White Gates,
Westcott Road,
Dorking.
Sunday [19th September 1948]
Dear Barter
I think the best way (I ought to have thought of it before) is not to pay the cheque into the Philharmonic1 a/c at all. But to keep it in your own bank as yours – to be used by you at your discretion in the interests of the Philharmonic – Then you will have entire control over the money & the society need not know anything about it unless you chose – & in that way my name need not be even mentioned.
Yrs
RVW
1. i.e. the Bristol Philharmonic Society. VW wanted to support the Society with an anonymous donation; see VWL2792.
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The letter is marked by the recipient ‘Recd. Sept 19/48’ and by VW ‘Sunday’. As 19th September 1948 was a Sunday it was apparently delivered the same day. Probably Barter, like VW, was at Worcester for the Three Choirs (R.V.W.: a biography, p.28; VWL2768).
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Shelfmark:DM433
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Citation:Cobbe 502
