THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Gerald Finzi

Letter No. VWL2349

Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Gerald Finzi

Letter No.: VWL2349


The White Gates,
Dorking,
Surrey.

9th January, 1952.

Dear Gerald 

To confirm our telephone conversation, Roy Douglas will play through my new work1 on Friday, January 25th. at 10 a.m. at the Oxford University Press, 44 Conduit Street, London, W1 by kind permission of Alan Frank. Please keep this confidential.
Yours sincerely, 

RVW 

P.S. Mrs. Wood2 has kindly asked us to lunch afterwards at 57 Gordon Mansions, Torrington Place, WC1.

Gerald Finzi, Esq.,
Ashmansworth,
near Newbury, Berks.


1. Sinfonia Antartica, first performed at Manchester on 14 January 1953. See VWL2335. On  Roy Douglas, see Douglas, Working with Vaughan Williams.
2. i.e. Ursula Wood.