Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Harriet Cohen
Letter No. VWL925
Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Harriet Cohen
Letter No.: VWL925
The White Gates,
Westcott Road,
Dorking.
[14 July 1931]
Dearest Harriet
Here it is
If you don’t like it send it back.1 If you do like it I will come & claim my reward.2
I had not forgotten about the theatre – But I’m a country cousin now & never in London3 – & you an international celebrity & never in England – But I want it & we will do it
Yrs
RVW
1. Probably the last movement of the Piano Concerto, Catalogue of Works, 1931/3.
2. A reference to the ongoing joke with Cohen that she owed him 10,000 kisses. See VWL976.
2. The VWs had moved to Dorking that year.
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Date from postmark (14 Jul 31).
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Shelfmark:MS Mus. 1642, ff. 12-13
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Citation:Cobbe 199