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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
VWL4378	Letter from Adeline Vaughan Williams to Victor and Mary Sheppard	Dear Mary & Victor It was good to hear from you - let us hope for 1952 and that you will both get to England then.¹ I can't...	19500815
VWL3770	Letter from Adeline Vaughan Williams to Victor Sheppard	Dear Mr Sheppard You have sent us another delightful parcel - we shall dip into the tin of Cape Gooseberry jam with much interest - It was...	19480523
VWL3739	Letter from Alan Bush to Ralph Vaughan Williams	Dr. R. Vaughan Williams, Whitegates, Westcott Road, Dorking. Dear Dr. Vaughan Williams, I have been intending to...	19410321
VWL3742	Letter from Alan Bush to Ralph Vaughan Williams	Dr Ralph Vaughan Williams The White Gates, Westcott Road, Dorking, Surrey. Dear Dr Vaughan Williams, On behalf...	19390715
VWL5044	Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams and many others to the Editor of The Times	Sir, We wish to record our solemn protest, before the conscience of civilization, against the persecution of the Jews in Germany. Yours...	19381118
VWL5055	Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams and others to the Editor of The Times	Sir, Until only the other day it was almost universally held that the noblest contribution of the British to European civilization has been...	19360818
VWL3071	Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Adrian Boult	Dear Adrian, I am sorry but I have decided never again to enter publicly into politics. When I have done so in the past I have always...	19550327
VWL1458	Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Adrian Boult (BBC)	Dear Adrian I have been asked by the Home Office to form a Committee to recommend release of interned musicians of “special distinction”. ...	19401004
VWL1855	Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Alan Bush	Dear Dr Bush I hope you know that I am sincerely anxious to help music in every possible way in these difficult times But while such...	19431206

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