Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Julian Herbage
The White Gates,
Dorking.
Dear Mr Herbage
Many thanks for your letter and complete programme and I note that you are hoping to engage Miss Silk.1 I should think that the final rehearsal would be the one for her to attend. If she cared to attend another one also then I should think the strings only one would be the best. I am sorry that you have not found room for the ‘Running Set’.2
Yours sincerely
R Vaughan Williams
1. Dorothy Silk, soprano.
2. Catalogue of Works 1933/3. VW had urged its inclusion in the programme – see VWL1181.
Musical works:
Location of original letter:
Date of receipt – 29th January 1934.
In the hand of AVW signed by VW.