Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Herbert Howells
Letter No. VWL1601
Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Herbert Howells
Letter No.: VWL1601
From R. Vaughan Williams,
The White Gates,
Westcott Road,
Dorking.
Sat: [13th December 1941]
Dear Herbert
Next Tuesday Dec 16 Foss & another are kindly playing through to me [the] sketch for a symph1 to see if I like it enough to go on. Any chance that you cd be there as your crit: wd be much valued.
Place Trinity College Mandeville Place. Time 3.30 pm.
Yrs
RVW
P.S. I am not asking a crowd this time probably only you and Gerald.2
1. The Fifth Symphony, Catalogue of Works 1943/2.
2. See VWL1599. The ‘other’ pianist was Alan Richardson.
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General Notes:
The date is given in a transcript attached to the letter in the hand of UVW as 19th December 1941 – but the day is clearly an error since the Saturday before Tuesday 16th December was 13th December.
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Shelfmark:MS 7832/376 m
