Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Frederick Delius
Letter No. VWL219
Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Frederick Delius
Letter No.: VWL219
13 Cheyne Walk
S.W.
Oct. 24th [1907]
Dear Mr Delius
I hope you will not think I am making a very audacious request—I should so much like to show you some of my work. I have had it in my mind (and especially now that I have heard your beautiful concerto) that I should profit very much by your advice & if you saw my work you might be able to suggest ways in which I cd improve myself – either by going to Paris or not.1 Have you ever any time to spare – and if you have would you allow me to come and see you. I don’t know if I ought to ask this on so slight an acquaintance.
Yours vy truly
R. Vaughan Williams
1. VW had heard a performance of Delius’s Piano Concerto a few days earlier.
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Printed in Michael Kennedy, Works of Vaughan Williams, p.89.
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Shelfmark Copy:MS Mus. 1714/1/3, ff.129-130
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Citation:Cobbe 49; Works of Vaughan Williams, p.89; Composers' Letters, edited by Jan Fielden, Marginalia Press, 1994, p.147
