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Featured Letter
from Vaughan Williams, Ralph, 1872-1958 to Herbert, Edgar Stafford Arthur, 1904-1967
Letter No. VWL5060
Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Edgar Stafford Arthur Herbert
Letter No.: VWL5060
January 1st 1919
Dear Mr. Herbert
I am sorry not to have answered your letter before. But it has been following me all over France. I am very glad to hear you like my tune – I am writing you a few bars of it for you to put in your book. [ 4 bars of hand written ‘For all the saints’ – Sine Nomine].
Yours R. Vaughan Williams 2/Lt Rga
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