Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Leslie Arthur Boosey
Letter No. VWL4993
Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Leslie Arthur Boosey
Letter No.: VWL4993
The White Gates,
Westcott Road,
Dorking.
August 13 [1933]
Dear Mr. Boosey
I have no objection to your issuing the songs if, as I say, the date of composition is printed on the copies. Re-writing them would not help matters. There is nothing particularly wrong with them technically – they are only, to me, rather characterless.
Yours sincerely
R Vaughan Williams
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Signed by VW.
Probably referring to Adieu and Think of me; see VWL5061, and other correspondence in the Boosey & Hawkes archive of this period. The two songs had been published in 1903 in The Vocalist; Boosey & Hawkes reissued them under the title ‘Two Old Airs’ in 1933. -
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Shelfmark:MS Mus. 1813/2/1/281/8
