fmb-1837-11-11-03

            My dear Sir
It is so very kind in you to send me such a beautiful Andenken (ask Bennett what this means) and to write me so friendly & amiable words with it that I really am at a loss, how to express all the pleasure you have given me by it, & the gratitude I feel for so great & continued a kindness. I was always thinking of writing to you & asking you not to forget me & the pleasant hours I passed at your house & now you did it before me although you could be quite sure that a kind reception like yours was never to be forgotten, while I as a stranger could well have thought that you would not remember all those to whom you have shown kindness at your house. But this fear I have quite lost by your friendly letter, & this is certainly not the least pleasure for which I have to thank you. Let me now only hope, that you will continue so true & kind a friend, as you have been to me during this last time of my stay in your country, & whenever I make use of your beautiful seal (which I do now for all the letters I write) I shall always have the gratifying recollection of the friend, who gave it, & to whom I am indebted for so many happy hours. – The only wish, I have for you, is that you might now be as happy a man, as I am since I again met with my wife – A passage in your letter makes me hope that by this time your happiness is the same, for greater it certainly cannot be; & when during these delightful times you sometimes may think of all the friends, that still are the same, while the new increase of happiness seems to have changed all around, I hope & wish that also a thought might be left for the one at Leipzig that is and shall always be
yours very truly & thankfullyFelix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
Leipzig 11 Nov. 1837          

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