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Featured Letter
from Vaughan Williams, Ralph, 1872-1958 to Frank, Alan, 1910-1994
Letter No. VWL3169
Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Alan Frank (OUP)
Letter No.: VWL3169
The White Gates,
Dorking,
27th July, 1949.
Dear Frank,
I understand that Mr. Hansen of Denmark has left a gramophone record for me at your office. I will call for it about 3 o’clock Friday afternoon if it is there. If not perhaps you could get your Secretary to ring and tell me about it before 12 o’clock on Friday.1
Yours sincerely,
R. Vaughan Williams
(R. Vaughan Williams).
Alan Frank, Esq.,
Oxford University Press,
38a, Soho Square,
London, W.1.
1. On the same day Frank wrote to VW to say that Mr Hansen of Copenhagen had meant to give VW a privately made record of In Windsor Forest but had forgotten to do so and had asked Frank to send it on to him.
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Shelfmark:File 912
