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            35 Bury Street, St. James’s. My dear Sir
At my departure from Coed Dû I was not able fully to express to you and to Mrs. Taylor my gratitude for all the kindness you were pleased to show me during the happy time I passed in your house, and I thought to bury in silence those feelings for which I could find but insufficient expression. However, being returned to this town, and recapitulating in my memory every hour I enjoyed since my absence from London, the recollection of your house and family must again and again occur to my mind, and prevails upon me to address you once more on this subject, though I am aware of how little moment my thanks may be to you. For you are accustomed to see everybody around you happy, and indebted to you for their happiness – the peasants, whose barren ground you have changed into a fruitful garden, as well as your happy children; and accordingly you do not want to hear repeated by a stranger the same feelings which they may better and more properly express to you. But I myself cannot forbear uttering what so strongly and most heartily I feel: restrained since long within the rules of ceremony, deprived of a familiarity to which I was accustomed before this journey, in short, after having been a stranger amongst strangers, I was received in your house like a friend. Absent for the first time from home and from my family, I had at least the pleasure of witnessing a happiness which at a former period of my life I shared myself. Those are the enjoyments which I owe to your and Mrs. Taylor’s kindness, and I never shall forget them.
If I should be so happy as to meet in my native land with you and your sons, or with any of your friends, I sincerely hope to find an opportunity of proving how much I feel indebted to you.
Believe me, my dear Sir, Yours very truly,
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy.          

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Absent for the first time from home and from my <persName xml:id="persName_6ff7f339-4b48-48ef-90bc-275c6ff36665">family<name key="PSN0113241" style="hidden">Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Familie von → Abraham Mendelssohn Bartholdy</name></persName>, I had at least the pleasure of witnessing a happiness which at a former period of my life I shared myself. Those are the enjoyments which I owe to your and <persName xml:id="persName_5ee013fb-f1f0-47f1-86a9-7bdab115f125">Mrs. Taylor’s<name key="PSN0115266" style="hidden">Taylor, Ann Rowe (1780-?)</name></persName> kindness, and I never shall forget them.</p><p>If I should be so happy as to meet in my native land with you and your sons, or with any of your friends, I sincerely hope to find an opportunity of proving how much I feel indebted to you. </p><closer rend="right" xml:id="closer_abc49994-08dd-496b-a58d-144df19ccc11">Believe me, my dear Sir,</closer><signed rend="right">Yours very truly,</signed><signed rend="right">Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy.</signed></div></body> </text></TEI>