Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Ruth Charrington
Letter No. VWL165
Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Ruth Charrington
Letter No.: VWL165
13 Cheyne Walk
S.W.
[January 1909]
Dear Miss Charrington
I wd be content with 14 or 15 violins if they all come & 3 violas if they all come (especially if Mr Carter1 is one ) – I think Royal College of Music might find Miss Izard.2 Remember that I can’t come Thursday March 4th
Yrs very sincerely
R. Vaughan Williams
P.S. Can you provide a few good players who will play 2nd violin & tell me who they are so that I can ask them.
1. Mr A Carter is listed as a viola player in the concert programme referred to in VWL146.
2. Miss A.M. Izard is listed as a cello player in the same programme.
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Date according to note by recipient on original.
This letter appears to be an attempt to revive the Pilgrim’s Progress play beyond 1908. Ruth Charrington was the daughter of Joanna Hadley, the author, by her first marriage to Ernest Charrington. Ruth was also secretary to an orchestra conducted by VW.
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Shelfmark:Add. MS 70935, f.31
