Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Edwin Evans
Letter No. VWL538
Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Edwin Evans
Letter No.: VWL538
13 Cheyne Walk
S.W.3
15/12/23
Dear Evans
I am extremely sorry that an engagement in the country1 will prevent my being present at the ceremony tomorrow – I am so glad to think your work is being officially recognized.
Yrs sincerely
R. Vaughan Williams
1. VW’s engagement was at Oundle School, with Hugh Allen, Harold Darke and others, to hear Bach’s Mass in B minor.
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The event VW was missing was possibly Evans’s appointment as Chairman of the British Section of the International Society for Contemporary Music (see VWL495).
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Shelfmark:MS Mus. 1714/1/6, f.16
