Item 207 - Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Elizabeth Trevelyan

Identity area

Reference code

TRER/16/207

Title

Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Elizabeth Trevelyan

Date(s)

  • [Mar ? 1941] (Creation)

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Item

Extent and medium

1 item

Context area

Name of creator

Trevelyan, Robert Calverley (1872-1951), poet, dramatist, and translator
(1872-1951)

Repository

Trinity College Library, Cambridge

Content and structure area

Scope and content

Thanks Bessy for her 'encouraging' letter. Glad she liked the article on Walford [Davies], which 'had to be written in a hurry' when he 'wasn't feeling well'; some bad misprints, and he particularly objects to '"beauty of intention" (which is an insult)… read more

Allied materials area

Existence and location of copies

British Library, MS Mus 1714/2/6, f. 139

Publication note

Transcription available on-line on the Letters of Ralph Vaughan Williams website, copyright the Vaughan Williams Charitable Trust.
Reference number VWL1528: http://vaughanwilliams.uk/letter/vwl1528

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