MS Mus. 159. SUPPLEMENTARY VAUGHAN WILLIAMS MANUSCRIPTS. Vol. vii. Letters from Ralph and Ursula Vaughan Williams to Michael and Eslyn Kennedy, with one letter from John South to Ursula Vaughan Williams and one from Sir Gilmour Jenkins to Michael Kennedy; 1946, 1952-8. Partly autograph; partly t...
A. Letters (28) from Vaughan Williams to the composer Ina Boyle, with 4 letters from Adeline Vaughan Williams; 1922-37, 1958. Mainly autograph; some in Adeline Vaughan Williams’s hand, signed by the composer. The letters chiefly concern arrangements for composition lessons. See E. Maconchy, Ina ...
B. Letters (6) from Vaughan Williams to Mr — Cunliffe, schoolmaster; 1922-3. Autograph. The letters relate to Vaughan Williams’ acting as judge for a school composition competition. Presented by Felix Aprahamian, Esq., through the offices of Prof. Byron Adams, 31 July 2000. ff. 61-6. Cunliffe,...
C. Letters (4) from Vaughan Willams to Norman Del Mar, with 2 postcards from Ursula Vaughan Williams to Del Mar; 1942-62. Partly autograph, partly typewritten. Purchased at Sotheby’s, 6 Dec. 1996 (lot 74), with the aid of a grant from R.V.W. Ltd. ff. 67-76. Joan Ursula Penton Vaughan Williams,...
D. Letters (10) from Vaughan Williams to Mrs Joyce Hooper (née Gayford), with a letter from W. L. Streeton of the B.B.C. to Mrs Hooper, and a newspaper cutting; 1939-58. Partly autograph, partly typewritten, signed; one in Adeline Vaughan Williams’s hand, signed by the composer. Mrs Hooper was f...
A. Letters (8) from Vaughan Williams to Ernest Newman, with a letter from the pianist Peter Stadlen to Newman; 1938-47. Partly autograph; partly in Adeline Vaughan Williams’s hand, signed by the composer. Purchased at Sotheby’s, 19 Dec. 2000 (lot 238; ff. 1-4, 18-19) and 26 May 2000 (lot 266), w...
MS Mus. 161. SUPPLEMENTARY VAUGHAN WILLIAMS MANUSCRIPTS. Vol. ix. Miscellaneous correspondence; circa 1920 – 1957. ff. 146. Largest size 263 x 209mm.
Scope & Content:
includes: f. 131 Harold David Rosenthal, writer on music: Rodolfo Celletti, writer on music: A. R. Peers, of Seymour Press Ltd: Copy of a letter from Harold Rosenthal's assistant to A. R. Peers: 1978: Typewritten.
B. Letter from Isidore Schwiller to Vaughan Williams, with a letter from Vaughan Williams to the director of the Pilgrim Trust and a reply from the director to Schwiller; 1940. The letters concern an application for a grant of money. Presented by Mrs Ursula Vaughan Williams, 22 Dec. 1997. ff. 2...