THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

13 Cheyne Walk
S.W.

Oct 12th [1911]

Dear Professor Murray

Thank you very much for your kind letter and for all the much too kind things you say in it. Of course there is nothing I should like better than to be associated in such a production as you foreshadow – however problematical it may be.
I have had several shots at some Electra music and have found the task much harder than I thought – I cannot make up my mind what sort of music w^d be the best and naturally until I can do that the music itself refuses to come. However your letter has excited me so that I believe my imagination is beginning to work. I should much like to have a talk with M^r Duncan¹ & am writing to him – I believe that if he has any very definite ideas it might set me moving.²
Yours very sincerely

R. Vaughan Williams

1.  Augustin Duncan, the actor.
2. On VW’s incidental music for The Electra, The Bacchae and Iphigenia in Tauris see Catalogue of Works, 1911/4.