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During the decade Adeline became increasingly immobilised by arthritis, and the numerous stairs in their London house finally caused the Vaughan Williamses to move in 1929 to a more manageable home, "The White Gates", [[Dorking]], where they lived until Adeline's death in 1951. Vaughan Williams, who thought of himself as a complete Londoner, was sorry to leave the capital, but his wife was anxious to live in the country, and Dorking was within reasonably convenient reach of town.<ref>Vaughan Williams (1964), pp. 171 and 179</ref>

 

In 1932 Vaughan Williams was elected president of the [[English Folk Dance and Song Society]]. From September to December of that year he was in the US as a visiting lecturer at [[Bryn Mawr College]], Pennsylvania.<ref name=chron/> The texts of his lectures were published under the title ''National Music'' in 1934; they sum up his artistic and social credo more fully than anything he had published previously, and remained in print for most of the remainder of the century.<ref name=dnb/>