THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Rev. Greville Cooke

Letter No. VWL734

Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Rev. Greville Cooke

Letter No.: VWL734


From R. Vaughan Williams,
The White Gates,
Westcott Road,
Dorking.

[9th June 1935]

Dear Mr Greville Cooke

Of course I know your name well – please quote from my Wenlock Edge cycle – I suppose Boosey ought also to be consulted.
The only other Housman settings I have are 6 songs for voice & violin which the OUP are going to bring out sometime – but I don’t know when.1 If you wd come and look at the M.S. Foss has it.
Yours sincerely

R. Vaughan Williams


1.  Along the Field  Catalogue of Works 1927/1. Although the final publication by Oxford University Press contained eight songs (and omitted a ninth ‘The Soldier’, previously thought to be destroyed but of which a copy has recently come to light and is now in the British Library) the manuscript referred to in the next sentence (now British Library Add. MS 50481) only contained six.