Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to the Carnegie United Kingdom Trust
Letter No. VWL431
Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to the Carnegie United Kingdom Trust
Letter No.: VWL431
6 Phene St
London S.W.3.
July 20 [1917]
Dear Sir
I have just returned from abroad and have received your kind letter with regards to my “London symphony”.1
Owing to absence from home I was unable to revise the score before I sent it in.
It is absolutely essential that it should be thoroughly revised before printing and, owing to my military duties I see no chance of being able to do this during the war. In these circumstances would you still wish me to send the score to Messrs Stainer and Bell and to sign the agreement?
Yrs faithfully,
R. Vaughan Williams
A.L. Hetherington Esq
1. VW had returned from service with the Royal Army Medical Corps at Salonika in order to train as an officer in the Royal Garrison Artillery.
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1. Address from which VW writes is possibly the house of Bruce and Elena Richmond where VW stayed immediately after his return from Salonika – see R.V.W.: a biography, p.125.
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Shelfmark:GD 281/41/37
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Citation:Cobbe 104
