Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Alan Frank (OUP)
Letter No. VWL2817
Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Alan Frank (OUP)
Letter No.: VWL2817
From R. Vaughan Williams,
10, Hanover Terrace,
Regents Park,
London, N.W.1.
8.5.45
Dear Frank,
Could you kindly send this letter by air mail to the American Composers Guild? I do not know their address.1 Could you also tell John Warrack that I have safely received the proofs of the cover etc of This Day,2 also the title page of Along the Field.3
Yrs
RVW
1. Lyle Dowling, the OUP’s agent in America, had sent a telegram on 3rd May: ‘League of composers strongly desires to give what is called here testimonial dinner on Vaughan Williams birthday Tuesday twelve October stop we strongly urge this stop all precautions would be taken to make everything easy for him’. VWL2818 appears to be the enclosed letter.
2. Hodie (Catalogue of Works 1954/3).
3. Catalogue of Works 1927/1.
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Date is typing error for 54 – the context and the address from which it is sent makes it clear that 1954 is the correct year.
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Shelfmark:File 119