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Letter No.	Title	Transcribed text	Date
VWL1527	BBC Public Statement	BBC Public Statement The Times, 14th March, 1941 B.B.C. AND FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION ANTI-WAR AGITATORS ONLY BANNED The B...	19410314
VWL1587	Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Adrian Boult at the BBC	Dear Adrian I see in the R. Times¹ that you are doing my England² on Sunday. It may be too late when you receive...	19411113
VWL1589	Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Adrian Boult	Dear Adrian Many thanks for your letter. We are too old and good friends to be afraid to be honest with each other & I cannot pretend...	19411117
VWL1591	Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Leonard Isaacs (BBC)	Dear Mr. Isaacs As regards the music of the 49^th Parallel¹ it won’t do as it stands, but I propose to make a Suite...	19411127
VWL1594	Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Stanford Robinson (BBC)	Dear Stanford Robinson I am sorry for my delay in writing to thank you & your colleagues for the P.K.¹ Many of my friends...	19411205
VWL1603	Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Leonard Isaacs (BBC)	Dear Isaacs I have been talking to Muir¹ on the phone and he urges me to send you the prelude to 49th \|\| l ² for...	19411216
VWL1610	Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Adrian Boult (BBC)	Dear Adrian I dare say you have heard Gustav’s masque “The Vision of Dame Christian” which he wrote for S^t Pauls Girls School....	19411218
VWL1626	Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Stanford Robinson (BBC)	Dear Stanford Robinson, Many thanks for your letter.¹ I wish you could find me a first class librettist. The really good...	19420104
VWL1637	Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Arthur Bliss (BBC)	Dear Arthur¹ Some years ago I wrote a brass band piece (which is still in my cupboard) Overture to Henry V founded on the...	19420322
VWL1672	BBC internal memorandum from Kenneth A. Wright, BBC	As you know, Vaughan Williams will be 70 on the 12th October, and the Home Service plans a week’s celebration – one programme each evening, ending...	19420629

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