THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

13 Cheyne Walk
SW3

27/7/23

Dear Sirs

With reference to your letter of the 17th.

– I should not be prepared to conduct a whole concert at Margate – But if the management cared to invite me to conduct one or two of my own compositions as part of a concert (as I did last year) I should be happy to accept. My fee for this w^d be £10.10.0.¹

I am free on Sept 21st.²

Yrs faithfully

R Vaughan Williams

1. See VWL499. VW’s fee has doubled since the previous year.
2. It appears VW did not in fact conduct at the Margate Musical Festival in September 1923 (see report in The Thanet Advertiser, Saturday 22 September 1923, p. 2. He had conducted his A London Symphony at the previous year’s festival (see VWL499).