THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Norman Peterkin

Letter No. VWL1578

Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Norman Peterkin

Letter No.: VWL1578


The White Gates,
Dorking.

Aug 31 [1941]

Dear Peterkin

Herewith
Score & string parts of quartet “Household Music”.1
I also enclose the alternative wind parts.
By the way can you give me any news of my Motet “Valiant for Truth”?  I passed the final proofs a long time ago.2
Yours sincerely

R. Vaughan Williams


1.  The first performance was to be on 4 October at the Wigmore Hall by the Blech Quartet.  The work was published in 1943.
2.  Catalogue of Works 1940/2, written in November 1940 in memory of Dorothy Longman.