Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Hubert Foss at Oxford University Press
Letter No. VWL1249
Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Hubert Foss at Oxford University Press
Letter No.: VWL1249
From R. Vaughan Williams,
The White Gates,
Westcott Road,
Dorking.
[25th October 1937]
Dear Foss
Thank you very much
I thought I must accept – though honours from Germany are not what they were.1
Yrs
R. Vaughan Williams
1. VW had been awarded the Shakespeare Prize in Germany, but the rise of Fascism had caused VW to have reservations about receiving the award.
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Date of receipt at Oxford University Press. See R.V.W.: a biography, pp.216-218.
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Shelfmark Copy:MS Mus. 1714/1/10, f.92
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Citation:Cobbe 285
