Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to William Rothenstein
Letter No. VWL756
Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to William Rothenstein
Letter No.: VWL756
From R. Vaughan Williams,
The White Gates,
Westcott Road,
Dorking.
July 10 [1935]
Dear Rothenstein
Please forgive my delay in answering your letter with its kind offer of a portrait for the proposed Holst room.1 Our committee did not meet till quite lately and I told them of your kind offer which they accept with gratitude.2
Yours sincerely
R. Vaughan Williams
1. The Holst Room was to be a memorial to Gustav Holst at Morley College – see Michael Short, Gustav Holst: the man and his music, p.331.
2. See VWL732.
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Shelfmark:BMS ENG 1148 (1552)
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Shelfmark Copy:MS Mus. 1714/1/9, ff.85-86