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Featured Letter
from Vaughan Williams, Ralph, 1872-1958 to Boult, Adrian, 1889-1983
Letter No. VWL2625
Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Adrian Boult
Letter No.: VWL2625
The White Gates,
Dorking,
Surrey.
28th January, 1953
Dear Adrian
I should, of course, love you to give a first performance of something of mine, and if I ever write anything more for orchestra we will try to consider it.
I asked John to do this last one because the year before he had done all my symphonies at his concerts and I felt I owed him something.1
I will write to the papers about Kings Weston.2
My love to Ann
Yrs
RVW
Sir Adrian Boult,
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
1. VW is referring to Sir John Barbirolli who had given the first performances of Sinfonia Antartica in Manchester and London a few days earlier.
2. A historic house near Bristol.
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Shelfmark:MS Mus. 1714/1/20, f. 3
