Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Joan Western

Letter No. VWL941

Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Joan Western

Letter No.: VWL941

From R. Vaughan Williams,
The White Gates,
Westcott Road,
Dorking.

March 15 [1936]

Dear Mrs Western

I enclose a letter from Sir W Rothenstein – I have thanked him & told him that you will write to him –
Yours sincerely

R. Vaughan Williams

[Wrote Sir W. R 20/3.
Drawings to go to Mrs Hubback at Morley]¹

1. These two lines in another hand, presumably of the recipient.

To:

Western, Joan
From:

Vaughan Williams, Ralph, 1872-1958
Scribe:

Vaughan Williams, Adeline, 1870-1951
Names:

Rothenstein, William, 1872-1945 Hubback, Eva, 1886-1949
Subject:

Gustav Holst Memorial Fund
Format:

Letter
General Notes:

Western was secretary of the Steering Committee for the fund to build a Holst Room at Morley College. See Michael Short, Gustav Holst: the Man and his Music (Oxford, 1990), p.331.
In the hand of AVW, signed by VW.
Location Of Copy:

British Library
Shelfmark Copy:

MS Mus. 1714/1/8, f.172