Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Iris Lemare
Letter No. VWL1101
Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Iris Lemare
Letter No.: VWL1101
The White Gates,
Westcott Road,
Dorking
[16th October 1933]
My dear Iris
My house is all shut up & I cannot get at anything until December.1 I don’t think I’ve got any band parts of “Sleepers Wake”2 – But if by December you’ve failed elsewhere I will then be at home & will look & see.
Good luck to your concert.
Love from
Uncle Ralph
1. The VWs were in London while an annexe was being built to The White Gates.
2. Bach Cantata no. 140, Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme.
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Iris Lemare had founded, in 1931, the Macnaghten-Lemare Concerts and the Lemare orchestra. She was the first woman to conduct the BBC Symphony Orchestra. VW had provided both encouragement and financail support for the concerts. -
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Shelfmark:MS Mus. 288, f.6
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Citation:Cobbe 238
