THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

The White Gates,
Westcott Road,
Dorking.

[28 January 1933]

Dearest Harriet

Welcome home!
The 2 young women who play my concerto part are
Vally Lasker
103 Talgarth Road
Barons Court W.
(no telephone)

Nora Day (address unknown)

also there’s
Helen Bidder (address unknown)

– But they all teach at St Pauls Girls School & so you c^d write or ring up there.  The orchestral accomp has been altered in places so that copy is not quite correct – but the number of bars is the same – so perhaps it won’t matter – or w^d you like to send it here to correct?¹
May I come one day & listen?
Love from

R.V.W.

P.S.  If you ever look at the Radio Times look at the new number out today – p.13. middle column²

P.P.S.  I tried to ring you up twice this morning but c^d get no reply
1076-50 = 1026³

1. Harriet Cohen had apparently asked who might be able to provide the accompaniment (arranged for piano by Vally Lasker) to help her prepare it for the first performance on 1 February.
2. VW had written to The Radio Times complaining about some comments in a notice for a Wireless Singers choral concert of music by, inter alios, Arnold Bax.  See VWL1030.
3. A continuing allusion to the outstanding balance of the reward of ‘10,000 kisses’ for the concerto.