Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Rev. Greville Cooke

Letter No. VWL734

Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Rev. Greville Cooke

Letter No.: VWL734

From R. Vaughan Williams,
The White Gates,
Westcott Road,
Dorking.

[9th June 1935]

Dear Mr Greville Cooke

Of course I know your name well – please quote from my Wenlock Edge cycle – I suppose Boosey ought also to be consulted.
The only other Housman settings I have are 6 songs for voice & violin which the OUP are going to bring out sometime – but I don’t know when.¹ If you w^d come and look at the M.S. Foss has it.
Yours sincerely

R. Vaughan Williams

1. Along the Field Catalogue of Works 1927/1. Although the final publication by Oxford University Press contained eight songs (and omitted a ninth ‘The Soldier’, previously thought to be destroyed but of which a copy has recently come to light and is now in the British Library) the manuscript referred to in the next sentence (now British Library Add. MS 50481) only contained six.

To:

Cooke, Greville, 1894-1992
From:

Vaughan Williams, Ralph, 1872-1958
Scribe:

Vaughan Williams, Ralph, 1872-1958
Names:

Foss, Hubert J. (Hubert James), 1899-1953 Housman, A. E. (Alfred Edward), 1859-1936 Oxford University Press
Musical Works:

Vaughan Williams, Ralph, 1872-1958. Along the field Vaughan Williams, Ralph, 1872-1958. On Wenlock edge
Format:

Letter
General Notes:

Cooke was, at this time, Vicar of Crossley, near Kettering.
Date from postmark.
Location Of Original:

Private collection
Location Of Copy:

British Library
Shelfmark Copy:

Mus RP 4893

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