Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Rutland Boughton
Letter No. VWL899
Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Rutland Boughton
Letter No.: VWL899
The White Gates,
Westcott Road,
Dorking.
January 18 [1931]
Dear Boughton
I shall not see Holst before Tuesday – I will get to Stainer & Bells ½ an hour early on Jan 20.
The point I propose to make is that we seem to be leaving the consumer out of this question altogether – and that the proposed Society1 if it comes into existence should be first and foremost one of the consumers & that the producer ie – the author, composer, performer & publisher should be co-opted on the invitation of the ”others interested in the subject”
Yours sincerely
R Vaughan Williams
1. Possibly the English Folk Dance and Song Society, which was formed by a merger of two societies in 1932, suggesting a date for this letter of 1931 or 1932.
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Date inferred from content: Holst died in 1934 and VW moved to White Gates in 1929. Assuming Stainer & Bell were not open at weekends, it must have been 1931-33 when January 20 was a weekday.
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Shelfmark:Add MS 52366, f. 104
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Shelfmark Copy:MS Mus. 1714/2/5, ff.37-38
