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- [April 1938?] (Creation)
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The White Gates, Westcott Road, Dorking. - Thanks Bessy for her letter and Bob's message. Glad she thought the choir sang well; thinks considering the three days [of the Leith Hill Music Festival?] together they were 'better than usual'. Encloses a 'small sum for the "Swoboda" Fund [see 7/194, 7/199]; suggests asking Mrs [Cécile] Fleischl for a contribution, but request that she does not mention his own name.
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British Library, MS Mus 1714/2/6, f. 140
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Transcription available on-line on the Letters of Ralph Vaughan Williams website, copyright the Vaughan Williams Charitable Trust.
Reference number VWL665: http://vaughanwilliams.uk/letter/vwl665
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The editors of the Letters of Ralph Vaughan Williams project date this letter to 1939, but see 7/194, 7/199 for other references, dated 1938, for a fund towards securing Swoboda's safety.