THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

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

April 18 [1940]

Dear Miss Fell

Would it be a good plan for me to give you a lecture on modern English songs – but this would mean at least an hour with illustrations and I should want good singers who would probably have to learn several new songs for me.
If you want something shorter and slighter – say ½ an hour – please choose between ‘English Folk Song’ and ‘Music in wartime’. A really good folk song singer would be useful for the folk song lecture, but if that cannot be obtained I should prefer to have no illustrations.¹
Yours sincerely

R. Vaughan Williams

1. VW had been invited to give a lecture to the Society of Women Musicians. See VWL1400.