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Letter No.	Title	Transcribed text	Date
VWL972	Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Adrian Boult	Dear Adrian H. Cohen wants to propose my Concerto for the Phil and Manchester next season.¹ As I once offered it to the B.B...	19311117
VWL1270	Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Adrian Boult	Dear Adrian Several people have expressed surprize to me that the Proms contain no concert devoted to Gustav’s music.¹ I have...	19340727
VWL1280	Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Adrian Boult	Dear Adrian Many thanks for your letter.¹ I am telling Isobel² what you say & asking her to write to you. It is...	19340819
VWL5042	Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to the Editor of the Times	Sir, May I be allowed to correct two mis-statements whic have appeared in the Press (not in The Times) and elsewhere about the...	19350211
VWL1763	Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Gerald Finzi	Dear Gerald The BBC orchestra are trying through my symphony¹ at 11.45 am on Tuesday May 25 at Maida Vale. Is there any...	19430518
VWL4473	Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Frank Howes	Dear Howes The BBC orch will try through my new symph¹ at Maida Vale on Tuesday May 25 at 11.45. I suppose there is no chance you...	19430518
VWL3954	Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Adrian Boult	Dear Adrian F minor Symph. Carelessness, sir, pure carelessness (as Dr Johnson w^d have said). Though I defy even the BBC orchestra...	1944----
VWL1867	Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Sir Henry Wood	Dear Wood You will hate me for worrying you - but I have just heard that another ex-pupil Elizabeth Maconchy has sent in a work for the...	19440225
VWL1905	Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Gwen Beckett (BBC)	Dear Mrs Beckett Many thanks for both your letters. Could you kindly tell me what time I ought to leave St Pancras to get to Bedford by 2....	19440312
VWL1907	Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Adrian Boult (BBC)	Dear Adrian Thank you & your orchestra very much for a fine performance - the clearest I have ever heard - and absolved me from...	19440326

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