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Featured Letter
from Vaughan Williams, Ralph, 1872-1958 to Performing Right Society
Letter No. VWL4009
Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to the Performing Right Society
Letter No.: VWL4009
13 Cheyne Walk
S.W.3
May 2 [1927]
Dear Sir
I return you herewith your statement of fees due to me since none of those items marked X are by me.
I am paying in your cheque since I presume that royalties to an equal or greater amount due to me have been paid to someone else.
Yours faithfully
[letter incomplete; signature has been cut away]
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Year from date stamp of recipient. See VWL4026 for another letter to the PRS where VW is correcting errors in allocaiton of fees.
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