Letter from Gustav Holst to Vally Lasker

Scope and Content

Discusses a performance of 'Mercury' from 'The Planets', H125, and conducting performances of 'The Hymn of Jesus', H140 and 'The Perfect Fool', H150 in Worcester. Also mentions a trip to Oxford, Ralph Vaughan Williams and Henry Wood. Addressed from St Paul's Girls' School, London. Includes original envelope, postmarked Hammersmith.

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Related Material

See HOL/1/1/40 for manuscripts of The Planets.

See HOL/1/1/48 for manuscripts of The Perfect Fool.