Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Walford Davies
Letter No. VWL4561
Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Walford Davies
Letter No.: VWL4561
From R. Vaughan Williams,
The White Gates,
Westcott Road,
Dorking.
March 29 [1936]
Dear Walford
With regard to copyright of folk-tunes: legally they belong to the collector, but I fully realize that the collector ought only to act as a sort of trustee. Nevertheless I think it is a good plan to keep ones hold on them to prevent their being put to unworthy use e.g. being jazzed by Henry Hall.
Of course in your case I am delighted they should be printed. Of course I cannot answer for other collectors, but I cannot imagine to their objecting to the tunes being printed as illustrations to a lecture.
So many thanks for your letter about the dinner – It wd have been nice to have you there – but I am glad that as many as [sic] my friends as possible were spared the awful ordeal of a party[?] dinner from 7.30-11.0
I am so sorry Margaret has not been well – give her my respectful love
Yrs RVW
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First half of letter in hand of AVW (up to “to a lecture”); the remainder in the hand of VW.
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Shelfmark:MS 7924 x
