Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Boris Ord
Letter No. VWL721
Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Boris Ord
Letter No.: VWL721
From R. Vaughan Williams,
The White Gates,
Westcott Road,
Dorking.
June 7 [1935]
Dear Ord
Thank you so much for your letter.
Those poor boys! I think they are quite right. I can cap your story with another of a small girl who asked her pfte mistress if I had had to pass an exam first!1
Yrs
R. Vaughan Williams
1. Note attached by Boris Ord: In reply to my letter congratulating him on his O.M., in which I told him that the choristers, while rehearsing his “O Clap your hands”, said “Oh Sir, did the King give him an O.M. for writing music like this!” B.O. 10.6.35. VW had been awarded the Order of Merit.
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Shelfmark:GBR/0272/PP/BO (Ord Papers)
