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Featured Letter
from Vaughan Williams, Ralph, 1872-1958 to Douglas, Roy, 1907-2015
Letter No. VWL2261
Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Roy Douglas
Letter No.: VWL2261
The White Gates,
Westcott Road,
Dorking.
Sunday [?1 July 1951]
Dear Roy
I am sending by registered post the first ½ of Act 3.1 – The rest will follow later – There is a new beginning and a large addition in the middle
C. Garden2 have not got Act IV part 2 – it seems quite lost – I am asking OUP3
Yrs
R Vaughan Williams
1. Of Pilgrim’s Progress
2. Covent Garden Opera Company
3. Oxford University Press
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Date from Douglas, Working with Vaughan Williams, p.29
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Shelfmark:Add MS 63547, f. 32
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Citation:Douglas, Working with Vaughan Williams, p.29
