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ELGAR ON 'LAND OF HOPE AND GLORY': "Yes I am proud to have provided my fellow Britons with a tune". Robin Legge, a friend of Delius and recipient of the first letter, has docketed it with the note that the tune in question is 'Land of Hope and Glory'; Elgar was no doubt responding to its first performance on the first Armistice Night, 1918; a tradition that was to be maintained for many years prior to its appropriation by promenaders.