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MS Mus. 1714/1/7

Record Id:

040-000799579

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-000799466

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000239.0x0003e7

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

MS Mus. 1714/1/7

Title:

Ralph Vaughan Williams: Correspondence

Scope & Content:

Letters and papers.

From Maud Karpeles, 1926, 1930 (5, of which 2 are copies).
To Maud Karpeles, 1926.
Memorandum on the General Strike, 1926. Published in Cobbe.
From William H Hadow, 1926.
From Harold Child, 1926.
'Message from the Musical Director'. To the members of the Bach Choir, 1926. Copy. Published in Cobbe.
From Dorothy Longman, 1926, 1929. (2, one of which published in 'RVW'.)
From Robert Longman, 1926.
To John McEwen, 1926, copy. Published in Cobbe.
To Vally Lasker, 1926-1930. (4, 1 of which is a copy).
From Sir Henry Wood, 1926.
Extracts copied by Ursula Vaughan Williams from letters of Emmeline Morris née Fisher to Adeline Vaughan Williams, 1926-1930.
Notes on a lecture, ‘The Revival of English Folk Song and Dance’, given by Ralph Vaughan Williams at the English Folk Dance Society Vacation School, 1926. Typescript.
To Leslie Fly, of Caterham School, 1926. (4, with programmes of 'Hugh the Drover' and Rutland Boughton's 'Bethlehem').
From Harold Darke to Ursula Vaughan Williams, 1965.
To May [Venables?], 1926.
To Gwen Raverat, 1927. (2. Copies. Published in Cobbe).
From Margaret Keynes to Ursula Vaughan Williams, [196?].
To Peggy Ritchie, [1928]. Copy.
From Adeline Vaughan Williams to Cordelia Curle née Fisher, [1928]. Incomplete. Published in 'RVW'.
From Roger George Clark to Ursula Vaughan Williams, about 13 Cheyne Walk, 1990.
'Recollections of RVW', by Howard Ferguson, n.d. Typescript.
From Joan A Hewell, formerly of Kensington Choral Society, to Ursula Vaughan Williams, 1992.
From Evangeline Farrer, 1929.
'A token by which to remember the performance of Job, April 10th, 1929'. Leith Hill Music Festival. Signed by Evangeline Farrer and the choir conductors: Graham Aider (Banstead), Sylvia Drew (Blackheath), L L Bazalgette (Bookham), Cyril Knight (Brockham), J M Martin (Fetcham), Margery Cullen (Mickleham), Geoffrey Verney (North Holmwood), Marion Barlow (Shere).
A rehearsal schedule, Leith Hill Musical Festival, 1929, addressed to Isidore Schwiller.
To Rutland Boughton, [1929]. 2, with 'Memorandum of suggestions for Opera scheme by G. H. and R.V.W.' Copies. Published in Cobbe.
From E H French, solicitor, of Thorold, Brodie, Bonham-Carter & Mason, to Ursula Vaughan Williams, 1959. (2). A letter relating to houses owned by Ralph Vaughan Williams.
From Joseph Macleod to Ursula Vaughan Williams, 1967.
From Lionel Tertis, 1929. Postcard.
From Margery Burrill, of Redmire, Yorkshire. 1929.
To Elizabeth Trevelyan, [1929]. Copy.
From Evelyn Sharp?, 1929. Copy.
To Pablo Casals, 1929. Copy. Published in Cobbe. With a letter from Herbert L Kirk to Ursula Vaughan Williams, 1973.
From Rosamund Strode to Ursula Vaughan Williams, 1990, with a photograph of Ralph Vaughan Williams circa 1930.
From David Brynmor Anthony to Ursula Vaughan Williams, 1958. (2).
A report of the honorary doctorate conferred on Ralph Vaughan Williams by the University of Wales, 1930.
From Margaret Vaughan Williams née Wedgwood, 1930. (2).
To Herbert Ellingford, 1930. (2. Copies).
Correspondence relating to 'Job: a Masque for Dancing' and the Camargo Society, between Ralph Vaughan Williams, Edwin Evans, Gustav Holst, Geoffrey Keynes, Ethel Smyth and Lennox Berkeley, 1929. All photocopies. One published in Cobbe.

Collection Area:

Music Collections

Project / Collection:

Music Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-000799466
036-000799467
040-000799579

Is part of:

MS Mus. 1714 : Papers of Ralph and Ursula Vaughan Williams
MS Mus. 1714/1 : Correspondence of Ralph Vaughan Williams

MS Mus. 1714/1/7 : Ralph Vaughan Williams: Correspondence

Hierarchy:

032-000799466[0001]/036-000799467[0007]/040-000799579

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: MS Mus. 1714

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

190 folios

Digitised Content:

Languages:

English

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1926

End Date:

1930

Date Range:

1926-1930

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

330 x 260mm.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Berkeley, Lennox Randal Francis, Knight, composer, 1903-1989
Boughton, Rutland, composer, 1878-1960
Casals, Pablo, cellist and composer, 1876-1973
Child, Harold Hannyngton, author, 1869-1945
Curle, Cordelia, née Fisher, b c 1880
Darke, Harold Edwin, organist, 1886-1976
Ellingford, Herbert F, organist, fl 1910-1960
Evans, Edwin, writer on music, 1874-1945
Farrer, Evangeline, widow of Thomas 2nd Baron Farrer, 1871-1968
Ferguson, Howard, composer, 1908-1999
Hadow, William Henry, Knight; writer on music, 1859-1937
Holst, Gustav Theodore, composer, 1874-1934,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000109178161
Karpeles, Maud, folk-song collector, 1885-1976
Keynes, Geoffrey Langdon, Knight, surgeon and bibliophile, 1887-1982
Keynes, Margaret, wife of Sir G L Keynes, fl 1920-1970
Lasker, Vally, pianist, amanuensis of Gustav Holst, b 1885
Longman, Dorothy, née Fletcher, fl 1900-1940
Longman, Robert Guy, fl 1900-1940
Macleod, Joseph Todd Gordon, author and producer of plays, 1903-1984
McEwen, John Helias Finnie, Captain MP, 1st Baronet 1953, fl 1900-1950
Morris, Emmeline, née Fisher, b c 1880
Raverat, Gwendolen Mary, née Darwin wood-engraver, 1885-1957
Ritchie, Margaret, soprano, 1903-1969
Schwiller, Isidore, violinist, fl 1900-1950
Sharp, Evelyn Jane, afterwards Nevinson author, 1869-1955
Smyth, Ethel Mary, composer, writer and suffragist, 1858-1944
Strode, Rosamund, singer, editor and administrator, 1927-2010
Tertis, Lionel, viola player, 1876-1975
Trevelyan, Elizabeth, née des Amorie van der Hoeven, b c 1875
Williams, Adeline, née Fisher; wife of Ralph Vaughan Williams, 1870-1951
Williams, Margaret Susan Vaughan, 1843-1937
Wood, Henry Joseph, Knight, conductor, 1869-1944