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Letter No.	Title	Transcribed text	Date
VWL5189	Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Ellis and White	Gentlemen¹ Have I your leave to print the words of the following Rossetti sonnets ('House of Life' Nos XIX, XLVIII, XLIX, L, LI...	19030213
VWL5190	Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Ellis and White	Gentlemen I am sorry I did not explain fully enough in my first letter.¹ I thought you would understand that I myself am the...	19030214
VWL5191	Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Ellis and White	Gentlemen I beg to write to ask leave to print the words of D.G. Rossetti's Sonnets ('The House of Life', sonnets iv, ix, xix, xxii, xlviii,...	19041030
VWL4938	Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Harold Child	Dear Child, I shd think the drafts w^d do very well. I want something rather march-like in character I think (rather like my '...	1910---
VWL4936	Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Harold Child	Dear Child, No, it isn't that I feel uncomfortable except on a few points of detail. But there are some problems and the chief one is...	1910----
VWL4939	Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Harold Child	My dear Child And this just as I am beginning to enjoy myself and things are going to hum! I spent all yesterday afternoon and evening over...	1910----
VWL4925	Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Harold Child	Dear M^r Child, I've at last read through your admirable scenario very thoroughly - it seems fine, it ought to turn unto something...	191006--
VWL365	Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Harold Child	Dear Mr. Child.¹ (I hope I spell your name right - I’ve never seen it written!) First I want to thank you very much for...	19100715
VWL4937	Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Harold Child	I am supposed to be writing something else but I find myself at odd moments thinking of bits of music for the scenes you sent me. It is all...	19110713
VWL4940	Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Harold Child	My dear Child I think the opera is beginning to go swimmingly. I have sketched fully from Mary's ballad down to the end of Hugh's 1^...	19110810

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