THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to David Stanley Smith

Letter No. VWL417

Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to David Stanley Smith

Letter No.: VWL417


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

[14th April 1935]

Dear Sir

I venture to enclose a few leaflets with regard to a memorial to Gustav Holst.1
Your university2 has taken such interest in his work that perhaps there are some among you who would like to share in perpetuating his memory.
Yours faithfully

R. Vaughan Williams


1. The proposal was to create a recital room and practice rooms in a new extension at St Paul’s School.  See Michael Short, Gustav Holst: The Man and his Music, Oxford 1990, p.331.
2. Yale University