Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Edward J. Dent
13 Cheyne Walk,
S.W.
Dear Dent
Gray1 asks me to write and choose between two dates for taking a rehearsal at Camb: - May 11th wd suit me the best of the two dates he suggests.
I enclose a list (given me by Boisdorf) of the windplayers who played my S.S.2 at Oxford (most of them also at Leeds) - so if they played at Camb: it wd all make for a better performance. I never thanked you for your kind letter about R. Gatty - he is now in London & is getting a certain amount of musical criticism to do - so I hope he will get into that permanently soon.
Yours very truly
R. Vaughan Williams
1. Alan Gray, conductor of the Cambridge University Musical Society.
2 A Sea Symphony, Catalogue of Works 1909/3, due to be given in June 1911 (see R.V.W.: a biography, p.95).
3. René Gatty. See VWL333.
Location of original letter:
Boisdorf unidentified