THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

The White Gates,
Dorking, Surrey

2nd November 1949

Dear Müller-Hartmann
On Sunday, November 20th at 3.30 p.m. some singers and players are coming here to let me hear a “try through” of two new works of mine.¹
Would you care to come and hear them? My space is so limited that I can only ask a very few but I should like you to be among them.

Yrs
R. Vaughan Williams

R. Müller Hartmann, Esq.,
c/o J. Hornstein, Esq.,
Craigelly,
Ladyegate Road, Dorking.

1. The works in question were An Oxford Elegy and Fantasia (Quasi Variazione) on the ‘Old 104th’ Psalm Tune. See Kennedy, Works of Vaughan Williams, pp.187-188, and R.V.W.: a biography, p.297 for details of these first performances. A programme of the event was printed; there is a copy at the British Library, MS Mus. 1116, f.171-172.