THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

Yale University
New Haven Connecticut

October 27, l954

Prof. Ralph Vaughan Williams
Cornell University
Ithica, New York

Dear Professor Williams:

I am happy to be able to send you the enclosed vote of the Yale Corporation giving its formal approval for the award of our Howland Prize to you on December 1.
Dean Luther Noss of our School of Music and Mr. Faulkner¹ corresponded during the summer about this, and we are all keenly looking forward to your visit to New Haven.  It will be a great honor for us to have you here.
Our plan is to hold the lecture in the late afternoon and to have a small dinner in your honor.  Dean Noss will write you about details.
With every good wish,
Very sincerely yours,

Reuben A. Holden
Secretary

1. Recte Falkner.