Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Arthur Boosey

Letter No. VWL4983

Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Arthur Boosey

Letter No.: VWL4983

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

Oct 4 [1940]

Dear M^r. Boosey
I have been asked by the Home Office to form a committee to recommend for release interred musicians of “special distinction”.
Do you think this applies to Kalmus & Roth? If so it would help me much, to fulfil the Home Office requirements, if you could give me full particulars about them – especially their full names and reasons why, in your opinion, they should be released. Apparently the reasons which weigh with the Home Office are “Special distinction”.
Yours sincerely
R Vaughan Williams

To:

Boosey, Arthur (Leslie Arthur), 1887–1979
From:

Vaughan Williams, Ralph, 1872-1958
Scribe:

Vaughan Williams, Adeline, 1870-1951
Names:

Roth, Ernst, 1896-1971 Kalmus, Alfred, 1889-1972
Subject:

Advocacy
Format:

Letter
General Notes:

Signed.
Boosey replied on 7 October about Kalmus, Roth and Stein, and the difficulty of getting through government bureaucracy.
Location Of Original:

British Library
Shelfmark:

MS Mus. 1813/2/1/281/6

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