Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Evangeline Farrer
Letter No. VWL4398
Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Evangeline Farrer
Letter No.: VWL4398
The White Gates
Dorking
Aug 8 [1946]
Dear Evangeline
I hear that you propose to drop the Childrens day – I do beg of you to reconsider this – it will be fatal if we let them drop out for a year – Besides this it will mean that the schools themselves will start a festival without us & we shall lose them altogether – we got on very well in the war years without a competition. The reason given me was that because we now call ourselves LHMC we must have a competition – I can hardly believe that such a pedantic piece of red tape was put forward seriously!
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R Vaughan Williams
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Year from postmark. VW’s plea was not successful, and Children’s Day was not revived at the Leith Hill Musical festival.
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Shelfmark:2572/114/36-38
