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MS Mus. 1714/1/20

Record Id:

040-000799594

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-000799466

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000286.0x00000e

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

MS Mus. 1714/1/20

Title:

Ralph Vaughan Williams: Correspondence

Scope & Content:

Letters and papers.

To Sir Adrian Boult, 1952, 1953. (3).
From Jean Sibelius, 1952, 1953. 1 letter (copy) and 2 telegrams.
Letters and telegrams relating to the eightieth birthday of Ralph Vaughan Williams, 1952. From Queen Elizabeth II, Max Beerbohm, George M Trevelyan, Gilmour Jenkins, Ralph Wedgwood, Cecil Day Lewis, Lionel Tertis, Joseph MacLeod and others.
Speech given by Herbert Howells 'at I.S.M. dinner, October 6th 1952'. Typescript.
To Elizabeth Trevelyan, 1952, 1953. (4. Copies).
Letter from Kenneth Adam, of the BBC, to Frank Wade, with reply, 1952. Copies.
From Patrick Hadley, 1952.
To Gilmour Jenkins, 1952, 1953. (4, three of which are published in Cobbe).
Letters relating to the marriage of Ralph and Ursula Vaughan Williams, 1953. From Gilmour Jenkins, Sir Robert and Lady Lock, Michael Kennedy, Genia Hornstein, Lorraine DuVal, F R Kittermaster and others. Some published in Cobbe.
Menus for dinners celebrating the first performance of Sinfonia Antartica, with signatures of guests, 1953.
Letters and telegrams relating to the first performances of Sinfonia Antartica. From Larry Adler, Robert Longman, Gerald Finzi, Margery Cullen, Michael Kennedy and others.
Review of Sinfonia Antartica by Michael Kennedy, 1953. Typescript.
To Vally Lasker, 1953.
To Anthony Scott, 1953. (5. Copies).
From Ernest Irving, 1953. (8).
To Percy Young, 1953. Copy.
From Neville Cardus, 1953.
To Hubert Foss, 1953. (3. Copies).
Letter of reference for Leonard Hancock, 1953.
Letter relating to the lease of 10 Hanover Terrace, 1953.
To Frank Howes, [1953?]. (2. Copies).
To Rutland Boughton, 1953. (2. Copies).
From Arnold Barter, 1953.
To Sir Alan Barlow, [1953]. Copy.
To Lady Lock, [1953]. (2, one of which is published in Cobbe).
Correspondence of Ursula Vaughan Williams and the Royal Philharmonic Society relating to the manuscript score of Sinfonia Antartica, 1993.
From Ian Wallace to Ursula Vaughan Williams, 1987.
To Sir William McKie, 1952-1953. (8, four of which are published in Cobbe).
From Sir Willliam McKie, 1952-1953 (4. Copies).
From William McKie to Andrew Raeburn, 1964.

Collection Area:

Music Collections

Project / Collection:

Music Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-000799466
036-000799467
040-000799594

Is part of:

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

MS Mus. 1714/1/20 : Ralph Vaughan Williams: Correspondence

Hierarchy:

032-000799466[0001]/036-000799467[0020]/040-000799594

Container:

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

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

223 folios

Digitised Content:

Languages:

English

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1952

End Date:

1953

Date Range:

1952-1953

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

330 x 220mm.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Adam, Kenneth, CBE; Director of BBC Television, 1908-1978
Barlow, James Alan Noel, 2nd Baronet, 1881-1968
Barter, Arnold, conductor and organist, b 1877
Boughton, Rutland, composer, 1878-1960
Boult, Adrian Cedric, Knight, conductor, 1889-1983
Cardus, Neville, Knight, music critic and cricket writer, 1888-1975
Foss, Hubert James, writer on music, 1899-1953
Hadley, Patrick Arthur Sheldon, composer, 1899-1973,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000081015044
Howells, Herbert Norman, composer, 1892-1983,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/000000012026671X
Howes, Frank Stewart, writer on music, 1891-1974
Irving, Kelville Ernest, conductor and composer, 1878-1953,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000117428650
Jenkins, Thomas Gilmour, civil servant, 1894-1981
Kennedy, Michael, writer on music, 1926-2014
Lasker, Vally, pianist, amanuensis of Gustav Holst, b 1885
Lock, Kathleen Beryl, née Penton, fl 1880-1940
McKie, William Neil, Knight, organist, 1901-1984,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000114644630,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/166576691
Scott, Anthony Leonard Winstone, composer, organist, 1911-2000
Sibelius, Jean, composer, 1865-1957
Trevelyan, Elizabeth, née des Amorie van der Hoeven, b c 1875
Wade, Frank, of the BBC, fl 1940-1960
Wallace, Ian Bryce, singer, actor and broadcaster, 1919-2009
Young, Percy Marshall, writer on music, 1912-2004