Letter from Gustav Holst to Adeline Vaughan Williams
Letter No. VWL3919
Letter from Gustav Holst to Adeline Vaughan Williams
Letter No.: VWL3919
SPGS [St Paul’s Girls School]
Tuesday [19 April, 1931]
Dear Adeline
I hope the festival was a complete success and that R is happy over it and not overtired.
There is something I want him to know – in fact he is bound to know sooner or later – but there is no immediate hurry and if you think he needs a rest from nervous worries please don’t tell him until you think that he in is a fit condition. At the same time I feel sure that you will agree with me in thinking that you are the right person to break the news to him. Which is, that I have appeared in a film.
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I’ve had a first rate day and have written quite a lot of music that makes me purr and feel good all over. And on playing it through I find that it is all Job!1 It really isn’t fair. Your old man ought to let me get in first sometimes.
1. i.e. from VW’s ballet Job, Catalogue of Works 1930/5.
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Date from postmark (11.45pm, 19 Ap, 31).
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