Vaughan Williams, Ralph, 1872-1958. New Commonwealth

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Letter No.	Title	Transcribed text	Date
VWL1662	Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Harold Child	Dear Harold Here is the 49^th //l¹ tune with a nonsense verse attached to show the metre and suggested rhyme scheme....	19420518
VWL5001	Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Harold Child	Dear Harold I feel very ungrateful and pernickety - but do we want fierce warlike words for that very sentimental unwarlike tune? What...	19420524
VWL5002	Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Harold Child	Dear Harold At last I've polished off the film stuff and have got down to our song.¹ I'm going to be a fearful nuisance but I...	194206--
VWL1681	Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Norman Peterkin (OUP)	Dear Peterkin It has occured¹ to me that the prelude to my “49th Parallel” music might make a good unison song. The metre...	19420825
VWL1687	Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Norman Peterkin	Dear Peterkin Excuse wartime paper. I fear poor old Rowe¹ has made a pretty good mess of this. On page 8 he has copied...	19420908
VWL1694	Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Norman Peterkin	Dear Peterkin It occurs to me that if my “New Commonwealth” comes out I might suggest to D^r Sargent¹ performing it...	19420928
VWL1754	Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Oxford University Press	[incomplete] (3) “New Commonwealth” - Have you made a separate agreement with Harold Child – and if not, would you do so? I want to...	19430309
VWL1819	Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Norman Peterkin	Dear Peterkin New Commonwealth I am anxious as you say to make the unison version as cheap...	19431114
VWL3060	Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Alan Frank (OUP)	Dear Frank, I am getting on with the revisions of No.6. and will send them very soon now. I will think hard about your suggestion as...	19491123
VWL2004	Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Katharine Thomson	Dear Mrs. Thomson, Thank you very much for your letter and for the good wishes of your choir. I enjoyed your photograph very much....	19500622

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