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Letter No.	Title	Transcribed text	Date
VWL5121	Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Serge Koussevitsky	Dear Mr. Koussevitsky Thank you very much for your kind letter - I am very sorry that I am not to have the honour of a performance of my...	19351203
VWL4773	Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Isidore Schwiller	Dear Schwiller On Tuesday March 24^th the Dorking Festival Chorus will perform S^t. Matthew Passion, Bach. I...	19351226
VWL4965	Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Sylvia Spencer	Dear Sylvia Gooseens can't play at Dorking this year - so will you please play 1^st? I am asking Joy Boughton to...	19360319
VWL945	Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Evelyn Sharp	Dear Mrs Nevinson I dictate this so as to make it more legible! I don’t think we need worry too much about the press. The fact remains...	19360522
VWL977	Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Hubert Foster Clark (BBC)	Dear Mr. Foster Clark I listened to the broadcast of ‘Job’¹ on Friday with great pleasure. It came through very well and had...	19360810
VWL981	Letter from Adeline Vaughan Williams to Ralph Vaughan Williams	Dear One It was heavenly to have yours - (1) from train on way to Hudder & by 2nd post (2) yours from Hereford. I feel so...	19360831
VWL1091	Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to A. Wynn (BBC)	A.P./A.W. Dear Mr Wynn If you are still thinking of doing “Dona Nobis”1 on Nov 13th I should like to recommend Miss RENÉE FLYNN if...	19361010
VWL1093	Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Adrian Boult	Dear Adrian There seem to be two essentials of great conducting (1) Faithfulness to the composer (2) The power of the conductor...	19361022
VWL554	Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Alan Frank (OUP)	Dear Frank Flourish Time 12. mins Orchestra 3 flutes & picc, 2 Ob, 1 Eb clar 2 Bb clar, 1 saxophone, 2 Fag, 1...	193701--
VWL1140	Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Evelyn Sharp	Dear Evelyn Sharp If we cut the journalists in Act 2 we ought to put back the Hobs trio at the beginning of the act. Also we ought...	19370131

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