Item 13 - Letter from Evangeline Farrer to Elizabeth Trevelyan

Abinger Hall, Dorking. - Mrs Trevelyan's letter of resignation from LHMC [Leith Hill Music Competitions] Committee was read out at the Committee meeting on Friday and 'received with very [emphasised] great regret' and the feeling that her 'old association with the Festival... from its very earliest days' as well as her 'great musical knowledge & judgement' would be a 'real loss'. Evangeline herself will feel it 'personally', as Mrs Trevelyan is 'bound up with all the old happy days of pioneering with Margaret [Vaughan Williams]'; whose 'whole soul was bound up in it' and who always comes to mind first when thinking of that time. Knows that Mrs Trevelyan feels, as she does, that it was an 'inspiration'; she must 'never feel anything but a part of it' even if she is not sitting on the Committee. Will be a pleasure to keep her informed on what is going on; hopes they will 'never grow too big' and believes the 'area limit' has been their 'great safeguard'. Mr Keep [?] expressed what the whole Committee felt; that they would all miss Mrs Trevelyan greatly, but were glad she could enjoy the Festivals 'especially the last one which came so soon after [her] recovery'; she must have had a 'very trying time'. Hopes Mrs Trevelyan will be able to come to tea next week; asks her to let her know when she might be free.