THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

13 Cheyne Walk
S.W 3

[late May 1922]

Dear Gibbs

This is most awfully kind of you & your friend (to whom I have written gratefully) – but I find that at the moment of speaking to you we had already closed with another house.
I enjoyed myself on Saturday tremendously & am so glad that others did. It is the right kind of competition – which so few are.¹
Yours

R. Vaughan Williams

1. VW was one of two adjudicators for the Essex Musical Association’s 11th annual competition, held in the Corn Exchange, Chelmsford, on Saturday 13 May 1922. Armstrong Gibbs led a competing choir from Danbury, and was on the organising committee. In the evening concert VW conducted Toward the Unknown Region and Gibbs conducted his work ‘Crossings’ (a suite from de la Mare’s fairy play). Dorothy Silk was soloist.