Opera

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Letter No.	Title	Transcribed text	Date
VWL286	Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to The Musician	A LETTER FROM BERLIN The chief musical event here during the last week has been a most noteworthy performance of the Ring des...	18971027
VWL276	Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Ralph Wedgwood	Dear Randolph, My natural pedantry nearly led me to call this place ‘Praha’ which the Bohemians call it. I don’t suppose that you knew we...	189912--
VWL158	Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Gustav Holst	My Dear V. Do you really think that because your work has been crowned with the disfavour of Joseph Bennet,¹ that my & other...	190801--
VWL322	Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Edward J. Dent	Dear Dent Thank you very much for yr letter - yes high pitch.¹ Elwes will sing 3 songs in his final group (I think that is...	191003--
VWL365	Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Harold Child	Dear Mr. Child.¹ (I hope I spell your name right - I’ve never seen it written!) First I want to thank you very much for...	19100715
VWL441	Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Edward J. Dent	Dear Dent I was talking to my brother-in-law H.A.L. Fisher (minister of education)¹ on Sunday - He thinks he could get a sum of...	19180226
VWL566	Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Humphrey Proctor-Gregg	Dear Proctor Gregg¹ I can’t stomach our Mike being made drunk & put in the stocks. - He seems to me a poetical...	192406--
VWL561	Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Michael Calvocoressi	Dear Calvocoressi The R.C.M. students are doing my Ballad opera - previous to its performance by the BNOC. (Tomorrow, Friday, Monday,...	19240703
VWL560	Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Humphrey Proctor-Gregg	Dear Proctor-Gregg¹ I feel that I have never thanked you enough - you know, however, that I am grateful to you. I think the...	19240719
VWL617	Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Evelyn Sharp	Dear Miss Sharp¹ Does Garnett mean 10% of the monies earned by us or earned by our publisher? If the latter there would be...	19270726

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