Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Sir Henry Wood
Letter No. VWL1867
Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Sir Henry Wood
Letter No.: VWL1867
The White Gates
Dorking
Feb 25 [1944]
Dear Wood
You will hate me for worrying you – but I have just heard that another ex-pupil Elizabeth Maconchy has sent in a work for the Proms “Puck Fair”. I do not know the work, but from what I do know of her I think it ought to be worth consideration.
Could you find time to glance at it & see if it is likely to suit you?
Do not answer this please
Yrs sincerely
R Vaughan Williams
1. A ballet written in 1940 but performed at the Promenade Concerts by the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Adrian Boult on 13 August 1944. See VWL1866 and VWL1926. There is a note on the letter in HW’s hand: “Already seen & included”.
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Year added in pencil as 1941, but 1944 seems more probable; see footnote.
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Shelfmark:Add MS 56422, f. 148
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Citation:Cobbe 426
