Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Alan Frank (OUP)
Letter No.:
VWL2925
December 25th 1954.
From R. Vaughan Williams,
10, Hanover Terrace,
Regents Park,
London, N.W.1.
Dear Frank,
I don’t think I like Christopher Fry, as a librettist, I mean. Sorry about A. P. H., but I fear you are right.1
Yrs
RVW
1. VW was thinking of writing a school operetta and had been discussing the possibility of approaching A.P. Herbert for a libretto - but Frank reported that independent enquiry had indicated that Herbert was ‘not in very good shape these days’ and suggested Christopher Fry instead. The idea of an operetta does not seem to have been taken further.
Location of original letter:
Shelfmark of original letter:
File 119
General notes:
Typewritten, signed.
Format:
Letter
Original database number:
541225b