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MS Mus. 1842/2

Record Id:

040-003452412

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-003436949

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100079332269.0x000001

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

MS Mus. 1842/2

Title:

Ralph Vaughan Williams: Letters to Jean Stewart and photographs of Ralph Vaughan Williams

Scope & Content:

ff. 1-34 Letters to Jean Stewart (later Hadley), mostly concerning the String Quartet in A minor, dedicated to her by the composer. All from Ralph Vaughan Williams unless otherwise stated. Vaughan Williams Letters (VWL) numbers are provided below, along with the conjectural dates suggested by the Vaughan Williams Letters Project.

f. 1 Envelope in which the following letters were kept
f. 2 'Feb 13' [late 1930s] (VWL5083)
f. 3 [1940s] (VWL5095)
ff. 4-5 'April 4' [1940s] (VWL5092)
f. 6 'Nov 12' [1940s] (VWL5091)
f. 7 'Jan 21' [1940s] (VWL5089)
f. 8 'Easter Sunday' [March 24 1940] (VWL5097)
ff. 9-11 'March 10' [1941] (VWL5087)
ff. 12-13 'Wednesday' [1942?] (VWL5093)
ff. 14-15 'Dec 26' [1943] (VWL5064)
f. 16 'Dec 28' [1943?] (VWL5094)
ff. 17-18 'Sunday' [July 1944] (VWL5085)
ff. 19-20 'Friday' [13 October 1944] (VWL5090)
ff. 21-22 'Oct 14' [1944] (VWL5066)
f. 23 'Jan 4' [1945?] (VWL5086)
ff. 24-25 'July 6' [1947] (VWL5063)
f. 26 [1947?] (VWL5082)
f. 27 [1947?] (VWL5065)
f. 28 'June 3' [1947] (VWL5081)
f. 29 'Dec 20' [1953 or later] (VWL5084)
f. 30 [1953 or later] (VWL5088)
f. 31-32 'Thursday' [28 August 1958] (VWL5098), from Ursula Vaughan Williams
ff. 33-34 'quotations from RVW letters'

ff. 35-40 Four photographs of Vaughan Williams

ff.35-37 Jean Stewart with Ralph Vaughan Williams, annotated with a date of 1945
ff. 38-40 Negative and two enlarged images of Vaughan Williams as a school boy

Collection Area:

Music Collections

Project / Collection:

Music Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-003436949
040-003452412

Is part of:

MS Mus. 1842 : Ralph Vaughan Williams: String Quartet No. 2, in A minor. Score, and letters to Jean Stewart.

MS Mus. 1842/2 : Ralph Vaughan Williams: Letters to Jean Stewart and photographs of Ralph Vaughan Williams

Hierarchy:

032-003436949[0002]/040-003452412

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: MS Mus. 1842

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume (40 folios)

Digitised Content:

Languages:

English

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1930

End Date:

1959

Date Range:

1930s-1950s

Era:

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Publications:

For transcriptions of the letters see the online database, The Letters of Ralph Vaughan Williams http://vaughanwilliams.uk [accessed August 2019]

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Williams, Joan Ursula Penton, formerly Wood née Lock, writer, 1911-2007