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Featured Letter
from Vaughan Williams, Ralph, 1872-1958 to Wood, Henry J. (Henry Joseph), 1869-1944
Letter No. VWL1403
Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Sir Henry Wood
Letter No.: VWL1403
From R. Vaughan Williams,
The White Gates,
Westcott Road,
Dorking.
Oct 15 [1938]
Dear Sir Henry
Very many thanks for sending me Rachmaninoff’s delightful letter.1 I am much gratified that he should have approved of my “Serenade”
I return his letter herewith. I hear that the recording is to be next Saturday at 10.0. I will be there.
Yrs very sincerely
R Vaughan Williams
1. The letter is now with Sir Henry Wood’s papers in the British Library, Add. MS 56421, f. 117.
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Year date added in pencil.
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Shelfmark:Add MS 56422, f. 145
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Shelfmark Copy:MS Mus. 1714/1/11, f.128
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Citation:Cobbe 304
