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Featured Letter
from Vaughan Williams, Ralph, 1872-1958 to McEwen, Robert Finnie, 1861-1926
Letter No. VWL579
Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Robert F. McEwen
Letter No.: VWL579
[10 May 1925]
Dear McEwen
Thank you so much for sending me your two compositions I am just off to Prag for the “Freak” festival.1
You may be glad to hear that your interest in the “Shepherds” has indirectly borne fruit – for it stirred me up to send it to the Oxford Press & they have accepted it.2
Yours sincerely
R. Vaughan Williams
1. The VWs were attending the International Society for Contemporary Music Festival in Prague.
2. See VWL578.
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Shelfmark Copy:MS Mus. 1714/1/6, f.210
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Citation:Cobbe 153; R.V.W.: a biography of Ralph Vaughan Williams, p.158-159.
