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MS Mus. 1714/1/9

Record Id:

040-000799581

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-000799466

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000286.0x000001

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

MS Mus. 1714/1/9

Title:

Ralph Vaughan Williams: Correspondence

Scope & Content:

Includes many letters about the fourth symphony, first performed in 1935.

To Vally Lasker, [1935].
To Bernard Van Dieren, about John Buckland, [1934?]. Published in Cobbe.
From Adeline Vaughan Williams to Rosamond Carr, [193-].
From Rosamund Carr to Ursula Vaughan Williams, [196-]. (2).
Correspondence about the Holst Memorial Fund between Joan D L Western, Peter Montgomery, Frederick Stock and others, 1935. Copies.
From Henry Balfour Gardiner and Patrick Hadley, [1935]. Postcard.
To William Rothenstein, [1935, 1937]. Copies; originals in Harvard College Library.
To Imogen Holst, [1935]. 2, of which one published in Cobbe, one in 'RVW'. One is a copy in Imogen Holst's own hand. Originals at Holst Foundation.
To Robert Longman, [1935].
From Robert Longman, 1936.
To Hubert Foss, 1935. (2, one of which is published in 'RVW'. Copies).
From Adeline Vaughan Williams to Cordelia Curle née Fisher, 1935. (5).
To Cordelia Curle née Fisher, [1935].
From R O Morris, [1935].
From Arthur Benjamin, 1935.
From Arnold Bax, [1935].
From Hamilton Buckland, of Dagenham, Essex, 1935.
From Herbert Kennedy Andrews, 1935.
From [Charles Tyson?], of Barrow-on-Humber, Lincolnshire, 1942.
From Edmund Rubbra, 1935.
From Margaret Jones, [1935].
From Maud Karpeles, 1935.
From Landon Pells, [1935].
To Landon Pells, [1935]. Copy.
From John Carlton, a fan letter, 1935.
From Margaret Ritchie, [1935].
From Cedric Thorpe Davie, 1935.
From Geoffrey Shaw, [1935].
To Elizabeth Trevelyan, [1935]. (2. Copies. Published in Cobbe).
From Elizabeth Trevelyan, [1935].
From Sir Adrian Boult, 1935.
To Sir Adrian Boult, [1935, 1936]. (2. Copies. One published in Cobbe).
From John Warrack to Ursula Vaughan Williams, [199-].
From Judith Blezzard to Ursula Vaughan Williams, 1989.
From F Wilkinson, ballet producer, 1936. (2).
To F Wilkinson, [1936, 1937]. (2).
From Johannes Röntgen, 1935, 1936. (2, one also signed by members of his Bach-Choir).
Solicitor's letter to Ursula Vaughan Williams, relating to Constance Margaret Vaughan Williams, 1962.
From Henry Cope Colles, relating to 'The Poisoned Kiss', 1936.
From Adeline Vaughan Williams, 1936.
To Ursula Vaughan Williams from Douglas Robinson, chorus master at Covent Garden, 1963.
To 'Miss James', relating to 'pipe music', [1936?].
From Ernest Rhys, 1936.
List of performances of 'The poisoned kiss' in 1936 and 1937. With a programme.
From Robert Percival, Director of Bristol Opera School, to Evelyn Nevinson née Sharp, [1936].
From Fritz Hart to unknown recipient, relating to 'The Poisoned Kiss', n.d. Copy.

Collection Area:

Music Collections

Project / Collection:

Music Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-000799466
036-000799467
040-000799581

Is part of:

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

MS Mus. 1714/1/9 : Ralph Vaughan Williams: Correspondence

Hierarchy:

032-000799466[0001]/036-000799467[0009]/040-000799581

Container:

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

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

206 folios

Digitised Content:

Languages:

English

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1935

End Date:

1936

Date Range:

1935-1936

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

330 x 255mm.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Andrews, Herbert Kennedy, organist, composer and writer on music, 1904-1965
Bax, Arnold Edward Trevor, Knight, composer, 1883-1953
Benjamin, Arthur Leslie, composer and pianist, 1893-1960,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121359504,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/61814849
Blezzard, Judith H, member of RMA, fl 1950-1990
Boult, Adrian Cedric, Knight, conductor, 1889-1983
Carr, Rosamond, fl 1900-1950
Colles, Henry Cope, music historian, 1879-1943,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000110291997,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/71510869
Curle, Cordelia, née Fisher, b c 1880
Davie, Cedric Thorpe, composer, 1897-1983
Dieren, Bernard, composer, 1887-1936
Foss, Hubert James, writer on music, 1899-1953
Gardiner, Henry Balfour, composer, 1877-1950
Hadley, Patrick Arthur Sheldon, composer, 1899-1973,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000081015044
Hart, Fritz Bennicke, composer, librettist, amanuensis of Gustav Holst, 1874-1949
Holst, Imogen, composer and writer on music, 1907-1984,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000109333854
Jones, Margaret, Associate of the Royal Philharmonic Society, fl 1925-1945
Karpeles, Maud, folk-song collector, 1885-1976
Lasker, Vally, pianist, amanuensis of Gustav Holst, b 1885
Longman, Robert Guy, fl 1900-1940
Montgomery, Peter, of the BBC, fl 1930-1960
Morris, Reginald Owen, musical scholar and teacher, 1886-1948
Rhys, Ernest Percival, author and editor, 1859-1946
Ritchie, Margaret, soprano, 1903-1969
Rothenstein, William, Knight, artist and art administrator, 1872-1945
Rubbra, Charles Edmund, composer, 1901-1986,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000080795923,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/197526
Röntgen, Johannes, composer and pianist, 1898-1969
Sharp, Evelyn Jane, afterwards Nevinson author, 1869-1955
Shaw, Geoffrey, composer and organist, 1879-1943
Stock, Frederick August, composer and conductor, 1872-1942
Trevelyan, Elizabeth, née des Amorie van der Hoeven, b c 1875
Warrack, John Hamilton, writer on music, b 1928
Williams, Adeline, née Fisher; wife of Ralph Vaughan Williams, 1870-1951
Williams, Constance Margaret, née Lidderdale, d 1936
Williams, Joan Ursula Penton, formerly Wood née Lock, writer, 1911-2007