THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Imogen Holst

Letter No. VWL1548

Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Imogen Holst

Letter No.: VWL1548


The White Gates,
Dorking.

[War years - ?1941]

Dearest Imogen

Here is the draft of the Dict Nat Biog article1 – I’ve cut it down so that it is now little more than a catalogue: and it is still about 300 words too long.  But there it is.  Wd you be very good & go through it
1) for errors of fact & date
2) your opinion as to whether I have kept the [main] things & left out the unimportant.
– I fear I have had to cut out the reference to E Evans’ 1919 article  – wd you also add anything else which should go in the bibliography[?]
All my love

Uncle Ralph


1. Dictionary of National Biography, 1931-40 (London, 1949), pp.441-443.
2. Edwin Evans, ‘Modern British Composers. 6: Gustav Holst’, Musical Times, vol.60 nos.920-922 (Oct – Dec 1919), pp. 524-528, 588-592,657-661.