THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Alan Frank (OUP)

Letter No. VWL553

Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Alan Frank (OUP)

Letter No.: VWL553


From R. Vaughan Williams,
The White Gates,
Westcott Road,
Dorking.

[About October 1936?]

Dear Frank

The total charge for copying parts of T.P. & Dona Nobis1 was 39-7-6
I take 10% off because they charged a little extra for deciphering my M.S.
So my bill is 35-7-6
Yrs sincerely

R. Vaughan Williams

P.S.  I thought Phyllis 4tet very good.2


1.  Five Tudor Portraits, Catalogue of Works 1935/5, first performed on 25th September 1936 and Dona Nobis Pacem, Catalogue of Works 1936/5, first performed on 2nd October 1936.
2.  Apparently an early, unpublished, work by Frank’s wife Phyllis Tate.  Her works were beginning to be published at about this time.