Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Ellis and White
Letter No. VWL5191
Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Ellis and White
Letter No.: VWL5191
10, Barton Street,
Westminster.
Oct 30th [1904]
Gentlemen
I beg to write to ask leave to print the words of D.G. Rossetti’s Sonnets (‘The House of Life’, sonnets iv, ix, xix, xxii, xlviii, and lix) in the book of words of a concert which I am giving at the Bechstein Hall on Friday Dec 2d at which musical settings of these words will be performed. My musical setting of sonnet xix has already been published (with your leave) by Messrs Willcocks – the others are still in m.s.1
Yrs faithfully
R Vaughan Williams
1. For other letters to Ellis and White, publishers of Rossetti’s Ballads and Sonnets, see VWL5189 and VWL5190.
-
To:
-
From:
-
Scribe:
-
Names:
-
Subject:
-
Musical Works:
-
Format:
-
General Notes:
Date from context. This letter is mentioned briefly in Allan W. Atlas. ‘Vaughan Williams, new Letters, and some thoughts about the date of The House of Life’, in RVW Society Journal 76 (October 2019).
-
Location Of Original:
