Music manuscript material

  • MU.MS. 626, RVW holograph manuscript, three preludes for the organ founded on Welsh Hymn Tunes (8 fols.)
  • MU.MS.694A-C, RVW holograph manuscript, Music to The Wasps of Aristophanes (420 pp. in 3 vols), with programme for the original performances, Cambridge, 1909
  • MU.MS.695, RVW holograph manuscript, The Wasps: vocal score (156 pp.), with programme for the original performances, Cambridge, 1909
  • MU.MS.901, RVW holograph manuscript, Fen and Flood, SATB chorus part (11 fols.), sent to Patrick Hadley, October 1955
  • MU.MS.1462, Patrick Hadley, ‘One Morning in Spring’, copyist manuscript (22 pp.) with holograph additions, sent to RVW for his 70th birthday

Fitzwilliam Museum Archive

  • FM/70/10/626/1, Autograph signed letter to Charles Cudworth, 11 May 1933 (concerns MU.MS.626)
  • FM/5/7/1/ Williams (RV) – Ralph Vaughan Williams to L. C. G. Clarke: letter 13.11.1947 (Concerns a proposed portrait of the composer)

Archives

  • GEN/W/WILLIAMS (RV)/1, typed letter signed, to Patrick Hadley, 8 June 1949
  • KEYNES/1
    Album compiled by Geoffrey Keynes mainly relating to a ballet – Job being William Blake’s Vision of the Book of Job (music by Ralph Vaughan Williams; scenario by G. Keynes; choregraphy by Ninette De Valois and scenery/costumes by Gwen Raverat). It includes various versions of the scenario some with corrections and one translated into French; correspondence from various sources connected with the project including Ninette De Valois, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Gwen Raverat and Frederick Ashton; together with programmes from various productions from 1930 to 1959, press cuttings and a few photographs including two signed. Also included are some general articles/cuttings on ballet and obituaries and memorial services for Ralph Vaughan Williams and Lydia Lopokova (Lady Keynes).
  • KEYNES/2/1- Ralph Vaughan Williams to Geoffrey Keynes: letter
  • KEYNES/2/2 – Ralph Vaughan Williams to Geoffrey Keynes: letter
  • KEYNES/2/3 – Ralph Vaughan Williams to Geoffrey Keynes: letter 26.11.1957
  • KEYNES/2/4 – Ralph Vaughan Williams to Margaret Keynes: letter
  • KEYNES/2/5 – Ralph Vaughan Williams to Margaret Keynes: letter 3.6.1944
  • KEYNES/2/6 – Ralph Vaughan Williams to Margaret Keynes: letter 20.12.1953
  • KEYNES/2/7 – Ralph Vaughan Williams to Margaret Keynes: letter 28.1.1954
  • KEYNES/2/8 – Ralph Vaughan Williams to Gwen Raverat: letter October 1927
  • KEYNES/2/9 – Ralph Vaughan Williams to Gwen Raverat: letter
  • KEYNES/2/10 – Ralph Vaughan Williams to George Darwin: letter 11.6.1909
  • KEYNES/2/11 – Ursula Vaughan Williams to Margaret and Geoffrey Keynes: letter 14.5.1970
  • KEYNES/2/12 – Ursula Vaughan Williams to Margaret Keynes: postcard 9.9.1958
  • KEYNES/2/13 – Ursula Vaughan Williams to Margaret Keynes: letter 15.9.1960

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