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Lot 261

Sale 5024 - Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Jan 31, 2019 5:00AM ET
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[British Music Composers] Autograph material (2)

Williams, Vaughan Typed letter signed The White Gate, Dorking, Surrey, December 27, 1951. 1 p. 12mo. To Rev. W. Turner Levy, New York. "...I am so glad that you are including the Bible in your lecture of world literature... there is a terrible move going on this country to propergate a new translation of the Bible... if we lose our basis of Bible language we shall lose what is most valuable in our language." Signed as R. Vaughan Williams. Walton, William Autograph letter signed Ischia, Italy, 13. 6. [19]65. 2 pp. on one blue 4to sheet. To Sydney Watson, "I have finished the orchestra score of the... Anthem [presumably 'The Twelve'] invariably a few emendations have cropped up which I enclose. None of them need be included in next Sunday's performance..."

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