Item 213 - Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to R. C. Trevelyan

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Reference code

TRER/16/213

Title

Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to R. C. Trevelyan

Date(s)

  • 7 Aug [1949] (Creation)

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1 item

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Scope and content

The White Gates. - Letter dictated. Asks Bob to help him, as before, with his 'ripe scholarship'. Has to adapt some text from "Revelations", set to music, to the Latin Vulgate [for a Latin version of "Sancta Civitas"]; asks if he can substitute "quia"read more

Allied materials area

Existence and location of copies

British Library, MS Mus. 1714/1/18, f. 184

Publication note

Transcription available on-line on the Letters of Ralph Vaughan Williams website, copyright the Vaughan Williams Charitable Trust.
Reference number VWL3166: http://vaughanwilliams.uk/letter/vwl3166

Notes area

Note

Date and context suggested by the editors of the Letters of Ralph Vaughan Williams project; see also 16/215

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