Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Evelyn Sharp
Letter No.:
VWL4699
September 26 1927
13 Cheyne Walk
Dear Miss Sharp
I agree to your paying to Mr. Garnett fifteen per cent of your profits on our proposed opera "The Poison Kiss".
Yours sincerely
R. Vaughan Williams
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MS Mus. 1714/1/27, f.43
General notes:
Evelyn Sharp was preparing a libretto for the opera The Poisoned Kiss (Catalogue of Works 1936/2) whose plot was developed from a short story ‘The Poison Maid’ from Twilight of the Gods by Richard Garnett.
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