Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to W.W. Thompson
The White Gates,
Westcott Road,
Dorking.
Dear Mr Thompson
I have noted the date Thursday September 27th of September.1 As to conducting, if I conduct the two new items as well as the Symphony it will leave Sir Henry2 hardly anything to conduct which I am sure the public would not like. But I will do whatever he and you think best in the matter.3
You can call the two new items first concert performance in London.4
Yours sincerely
R Vaughan Williams
1. sic.
2. Sir Henry Wood.
3. On the concert see R.V.W.: a biography, p.202.
4. The two new works were The Running Set and Fantasia on Greensleeves. - see VWL1260.
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To W.W. Thompson at the BBC.