fmb-1833-11-25-01

            My dear Sir
Instead of writing to you a real letter as I intended and ought to have done I am now obliged to answer your very kind note in the same form, and to say in a few lines how heartily I wish I could accompany Klingemann who is packing up and leaves me in half an hour, & how glad I would be to spend a few days with you & come back afterwards to my occupations. I hope you will like to know, that I am even much better pleased with my stay at Dusseldorf than I thought I should be; since long I had not a busier and more pleasing time, than since my arrival here, and having now a great many very grand plans (you know this is my „faible“) I may truly say that I feel happy and well. As soon as possibly I can I shall write & tell you the particulars of my occupations, both private & public; Klingemann is in haste to-day, and so excuse me. –
He told me you wanted to have some things in the score-way; allow me to send you a score of Bachs second „passione” lately published, which I trust will be interesting to you, and to add a motetto of Orl. Lasso’s, which I copied for you at Cologn where I found it amongst some insignificant manuscripts at the Cathedral. I think it the finest of his compositions, at least of those I know.
Farewell, my dear Sir, and continue to enjoy health & happiness. Pray remember me kindly to Mrs. Horsley & to the whole family. My Overture in f is now finished, the arrangement as a Duet is begun, and accordingly I think seriously of the fulfilment of our great contract. Till Christmas I mean to have performed my part of the duty.
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Sie bietet neben der diplomatischen Wiedergabe der rund 6.000 Briefe Mendelssohns erstmals auch eine Gesamtausgabe der über 7.200 Briefe an den Komponisten sowie einen textkritischen, inhalts- und kontexterschließenden Kommentar aller Briefe. Sie wird ergänzt durch eine Personen- und Werkdatenbank, eine Lebenschronologie Mendelssohns, zahlreicher Register der Briefe, Werke, Orte und Körperschaften sowie weitere Verzeichnisse. Philologisches Konzept,  Philologische FMB-C-Editionsrichtlinien: Uta Wald, Dr. Ulrich Taschow. Digitales Konzept, Digitale FMB-C-Editionsrichtlinien: Dr. Ulrich Taschow. Technische Konzeption der Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Correspondence FMB-C Ausgabe und Webdesign: Dr. Ulrich Taschow.</p></editorialDecl></encodingDesc> <profileDesc> <creation> <date cert="high" when="1833-11-25" xml:id="date_7e5bb6d2-ad08-4678-9c69-9d72618bcfd3">25. 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Horsley / Esqu.]</addrLine> <addrLine>1 high Row</addrLine> <addrLine>Kensington Gravel Pits</addrLine> </address> </head> </div> <div n="1" type="act_of_writing" xml:id="div_4d105faf-5341-47bf-b122-b2480460b97c"><docAuthor key="PSN0000001" resp="author" style="hidden">Mendelssohn Bartholdy (bis 1816: Mendelssohn), Jacob Ludwig Felix (1809-1847)</docAuthor><docAuthor key="PSN0000001" resp="writer" style="hidden">Mendelssohn Bartholdy (bis 1816: Mendelssohn), Jacob Ludwig Felix (1809-1847)</docAuthor><salute rend="left">My dear Sir</salute><p style="paragraph_without_indent">Instead of writing to you a real letter as I intended and ought to have done I am now obliged to answer your very kind note in the same form, and to say in a few lines how heartily I wish I could accompany <persName xml:id="persName_283cf86f-42cd-44e1-8216-04f718465063">Klingemann<name key="PSN0112434" style="hidden">Klingemann, Ernst Georg Carl Christoph Konrad (1798-1862)</name></persName> who is packing up and leaves me in half an hour, &amp; how glad I would be to spend a few days with you &amp; come back afterwards to my occupations. I hope you will like to know, that I am even much better pleased with my stay at Dusseldorf than I thought I should be; since long I had not a busier and more pleasing time, than since my arrival here, and having now a great many very grand plans (you know this is my „faible“) I may truly say that I feel happy and well. 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Pray remember me kindly to <persName xml:id="persName_a023400c-8d01-49da-8003-eb9098f8e700">Mrs. Horsley<name key="PSN0112103" style="hidden">Horsley, Elizabeth Hutchins (1793-1875)</name></persName> &amp; to the <persName xml:id="persName_bd2637ae-d7db-4660-9315-96402547288e">whole family<name key="PSN0112100" style="hidden">Horsley, Familie von → William H.</name></persName>. <title xml:id="title_22ae6282-f6d9-404b-bd23-e8dc2c570e8e">My Overture<list style="hidden" type="fmb_works_directory" xml:id="title_bjtbtynd-k5aa-0glj-lugz-hlatqgzdsmzr"> <item n="1" sortKey="musical_works" style="hidden"></item> <item n="2" sortKey="instrumental_music" style="hidden"></item> <item n="3" sortKey="orchestral_music" style="hidden"></item> <item n="4" sortKey="overtures_and_other_orchestral_works" style="hidden"></item></list><name key="PSN0000001" style="hidden" type="author">Mendelssohn Bartholdy (bis 1816: Mendelssohn), Jacob Ludwig Felix (1809-1847)</name><name key="PRC0100367" style="hidden">Konzert-Ouvertüre Nr. 4 zum Märchen von der schönen Melusine F-Dur, [März 1833] bis 14. 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