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MS Mus. 1714/1/13

Record Id:

040-000799585

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-000799466

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000286.0x000005

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

MS Mus. 1714/1/13

Title:

Ralph Vaughan Williams: Correspondence

Scope & Content:

Letters and papers.

During the war years some of Ralph and Adeline's letters are written on the back of incoming mail.

To Ursula Wood, [1940, 1941]. (41, 6 of which are published in Cobbe. One is written on the back of a letter from Percy Rowe about music copying).
From Adeline Vaughan Williams to Ursula Wood, [1940], 1941. (One letter and one postcard).
To Robert Müller-Hartmann, 1940, 1941. (2. Copies. One published in Cobbe).
To Adrian Boult, [1940]. Copy. Published in Cobbe.
A menu for a dinner for the seventieth birthday of Sir Hugh Allen, with signatures of guests including Stanley Marchant, Thomas Armstrong, Frank Howes, Hubert Foss, Thomas Wood. With a photograph.
To Isidore Schwiller, [1940]. Copy.
Poem by Frances Farrer, 'Gathering song of Ralph the White', 1940. Typescript.
To Ursula Vaughan Williams from 'B' of 24 Watford Road, King's Langley, relating to Molly and Elizabeth Darbyshire, [196-].
From George Trevelyan, 1940. (2).
From Bruce Richmond, 1941. A postcard.
From St Thomas's Hospital Musical Society, Guildford, [1940?] With signatures of members of the society.
To Granville Bantock, [1940]. (2, published in Cobbe).
From Adeline Vaughan Williams to Cordelia Curle née Fisher, [1940-1941]. (3).
From Adeline Vaughan Williams to Mary [Fletcher?], 1940. (2).
To Adine O'Neill, 1941-1943. (9, one of which is published in Cobbe). Earlier letters to Adine O'Neill are MS Mus. 932, ff. 102-108.
From 'Pegs' of 318 Lillie Road, SW6, 1940.
From Percy Scholes, 1940.
From Kenneth Johnstone to Ursula Vaughan Williams, [196?].
Reminiscences, 'Vaughan Williams and the Welsh Guards', by Robin Rose Price, with related correspondence, 1959.
To Robert Longman, [1940]. With an inscribed printed copy of the motet 'Valiant-for-truth'.
From Robert Longman, 1940, 1941. (2, one published in Cobbe).
From John Lucas to Michael Kennedy, 1987.
To Imogen Holst, [1940]. Copy. Published in Cobbe.
From Imogen Holst, inscribed photograph of music by Gustav Holst, 1940.
From Maud Karpeles to Ursula Wood, 1940. (3).
To Myfanwy Jones, [1941]. (2, one published in Cobbe).
To Lord Kennet, 1941. Copy. Published in Cobbe.
From Sinclair Logan, 1941.
To Hubert Foss, [1941]. Copy. Published in Cobbe.
From Evelyn Nevinson née Sharp to Beryl Lock, 1941.
To Beryl Lock, [1941]. (2, one published in Cobbe, where the date is given as 1942).
From Olive Heseltine, [1941?].
From A. H. Fox-Strangways, 1941.
To the Editor, Civil Liberty, 1941. Published in Cobbe.
'Appendix I', a draft of the appendix 'Vaughan Williams and Bach' in 'RVW'. Typescript.
From Alan Bush to Ursula Vaughan Williams, 1958.

Collection Area:

Music Collections

Project / Collection:

Music Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-000799466
036-000799467
040-000799585

Is part of:

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

MS Mus. 1714/1/13 : Ralph Vaughan Williams: Correspondence

Hierarchy:

032-000799466[0001]/036-000799467[0013]/040-000799585

Container:

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

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

186 folios

Digitised Content:

Languages:

English

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1940

End Date:

1941

Date Range:

1940-1941

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

330 x 230mm.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Allen, Hugh Percy, Knight, organist and administrator, 1869-1946
Bantock, Granville Ransome, Knight, composer, 1868-1946
Boult, Adrian Cedric, Knight, conductor, 1889-1983
Bush, Alan Dudley, composer and pianist, 1900-1995
Curle, Cordelia, née Fisher, b c 1880
Farrer, Frances Margaret, public servant, 1895-1977
Foss, Hubert James, writer on music, 1899-1953
Fox-Strangways, Arthur Henry, music critic, 1859-1948
Holst, Imogen, composer and writer on music, 1907-1984,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000109333854
Johnstone, Kenneth Roy, diplomat, 1902-1978
Karpeles, Maud, folk-song collector, 1885-1976
Kennedy, Michael, writer on music, 1926-2014
Lock, Kathleen Beryl, née Penton, fl 1880-1940
Logan, Sinclair, singer; secretary, National Institute for the Blind, fl 1920-1960
Longman, Robert Guy, fl 1900-1940
Müller-Hartmann, Robert, German composer, 1884-1950
O'Neill, Adine, née Rückert pianist, 1899-1935
Price, Robin Rose, Lieutenant Colonel; D.S.O., O.B.E., fl 1900-1960
Richmond, Bruce Lyttelton, Editor 'Times Literary Supplement', 1871-1964
Scholes, Percy Alfred, Dr; writer on music, 1877-1958
Schwiller, Isidore, violinist, fl 1900-1950
Sharp, Evelyn Jane, afterwards Nevinson author, 1869-1955
Trevelyan, George Macaulay, OM, historian, 1876-1962
Williams, Adeline, née Fisher; wife of Ralph Vaughan Williams, 1870-1951
Williams, Joan Ursula Penton, formerly Wood née Lock, writer, 1911-2007
Young, Edward Hilton, 1st Baron Kennet, 1879-1960