Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Evelyn Sharp
Letter No.:
VWL795
[July 1927]
13 Cheyne Walk
Chelsea, S.W.3.
Dear Miss Sharp1
I have, in intervals of other things which have been pressing, been preparing all my proposed emendations of Act I - which I will come & discuss with you soon if I may - then I hope to get on to Act II2
Yrs sincerely
R Vaughan Williams
1. Evelyn Sharp, sister of Cecil Sharp the folk-song collector.
2. 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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Shelfmark of original letter:
MS Mus. 161, f.23
Format:
Letter
Original database number:
2707xa