Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Harriet Cohen
Letter No. VWL985
Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Harriet Cohen
Letter No.: VWL985
The White Gates,
Westcott Road,
Dorking.
[29 November 1931]
Dearest Harriet
The copyists address is
Miss Lilian Mukle
290 Greenford Road
Sudbury Hill
Greenford
Middlesex
Will you send it her & explain what you want. I am also writing. 1
It was wonderful last night – In the presence of that splendour of imagination & marvellous means of expressing it. I feel like an incompetent amateur.
Good luck to America & come back soon so that we may continue our discussions 1079 – 20 (?) (but I suppose that extra long argument ought to count as two – it was as good as 10000 – but I shall demand my full debt all the same)2
Yrs
RVW
1. Perhaps Harriet Cohen wanted a copy of the piano part of the Piano Concerto.
2. A reference to the joke about Cohen’s debt of 10,000 kisses to VW.
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General Notes:
This was probably written the day after the performance on 28 November referred to in VWL971. VW then wrote to Harriet Cohen in America on 14 December.
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Shelfmark:MS Mus. 1642, ff. 18-20
