Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Cecil Armstrong Gibbs
Letter No. VWL2124
Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Cecil Armstrong Gibbs
Letter No.: VWL2124
From R. Vaughan Williams,
The White Gates,
Westcott Road,
Dorking.
Dec 15 [1949]
Dear Armstrong
Here is a small good-will offering for Xmas.1
I expect you have already chosen something else. If not these are at your service.2
Yrs
RVW
1.Three Shakespeare Songs (Catalogue of Works 1951/3, p.222). See VWL2005.
2. The work was used as a test piece at the British Federation of Music Festivals National Competitive Festival in 1951.
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General Notes:
The year must be 1949 – see reference in VWL2005 which is dated June 1950 and is clearly after this letter, although the date ‘1950’ has been added in another hand.
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Shelfmark:GB 1111 GBS
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Shelfmark Copy:MS Mus. 1714/2/5, f. 122