Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Harriet Cohen
Letter No. VWL976
Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Harriet Cohen
Letter No.: VWL976
The White Gates,
Westcott Road,
Dorking.
[22 November 1931]
Dearest Harriet
How can I say ‘no’ – when such a reward will be mine if I say “yes”? I shall claim it to the full (and the 1580th)1
Yrs
RVW
1. This letter was a response to a request by Harriet Cohen for the Choral and Chorale Prelude, which VW wrote for A Bach Book for Harriet Cohen. See Cohen’s memoir, A Bundle of Time (Faber, 1969), p.183. The reward was 10,000 kisses, the gradual paying off of which became a standing joke in VW’s letters to Harriet Cohen.
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Date from postmark (22 Nov 31).
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Shelfmark:MS Mus. 1642, ff. 16-17
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Citation:Cobbe 192