Nov 17, 2020 - Sale 2551

Sale 2551 - Lot 98

Price Realized: $ 562
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS, RALPH. Two letters, each Signed, "R VaughanWilliams": Autograph Letter * Typed Letter. The first, to "Dear Mrs. Cole[?]," describing a plan for concert night involving the sharing of a box and giving a talk. The second, to "Dear Mr. Clarke," thanking for sending a record and declining to release his songs for voice and violin. Together 3 pages, small 4to and oblong 8vo, personal stationery; short closed separation at folds of first. Dorking, 22 December 1929-10 January 1930; London, 22 November 1953

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1953: ". . . As regards my songs for voice (soprano) and violin, they will want a lot of thinking over and revision before I can let them go, and I do not know when I shall find time to do this."