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Letter No.	Title	Transcribed text	Date
VWL2020	Oxford University Press file note on Ralph Vaughan Williams's English version of Bach's B minor Mass by Norman Peterkin	Vaughan Williams came to discuss his Bach B minor mass scheme¹ with NP. Foss’ report of Oct 29th was read out to him & a copy given...	19451120
VWL1641	Memorandum from Norman Peterkin to Sir Humphrey Milford	Sir Humphrey S. Milford¹ VAUGHAN WILLIAMS I...	19420424
VWL3466	Letter from Ursula Vaughan Williams to Christopher Morris (OUP)	Dear Mr Morris, We have both been through this most carefully, added a few stage directions, a little more dialogue and made clear the...	19570217
VWL2793	Letter from Ursula Vaughan Williams to Alan Frank (OUP)	Dear Alan, Ralph asks me to say that he would be very grateful if you will get him a set of Child, through the Press, & offset against...	19540222
VWL2795	Letter from Ursula Vaughan Williams to Alan Frank (OUP)	Dear Alan, Thank you very much for the promise of 4gns on publication of This Day.¹ As to the songs. Ralph asks me to say...	19540228
VWL3449	Letter from Ursula Vaughan Williams to Alan Frank (OUP)	Dear Alan, Here are the ~~prose~~ dialogue passages of Act 1. now made into narrative verse, as brisk as I can manage.¹ ...	19561125
VWL4336	Letter from Ursula Vaughan Williams to Alan Frank	Dear Alan, I write for Ralph about Epithalamion - the first 72 pages will be ready early next week, & the second instalment to follow...	19570118
VWL112	Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Sir Humphrey Milford	Dear Sir Humphrey I am writing to Stanton to say that I will look at the book¹ when it is ready and decide whether I can act as...	19420323
VWL3779	Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Sir Humphrey Milford	Dear Sir Humphrey Yesterday I had a visit from Dr. Stanton of the BBC asking me to be musical adviser to their hymn book. What they...	19420311
VWL857	Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Ralph Greaves	Dear Greaves Certainly the hobgoblins & mediums should not appear in the chorus edition, except, of course, when they sing in the...	19300430

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