THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

The White Gates
Dorking

Aug 18 [1946]

Dear Evangeline
Thankyou so much for your letter. I still feel sorry about it¹ – I feel that if we once drop out it will never revive under us & then it will revive under some other organisation & we shall have no hold over the quality [?} of the music – I think that (probably owing to my bad writing) you misunderstood the passage – I did not say that it was pedantic to have a competition – but to think it necessary to have a competition merely because we call ourselves “C”²
Yrs
R Vaughan Williams

1. The Leith Hill Musical Competition had decided to drop the Children’s Day from its programme; see VWL4398.
2. See VWL4398.