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            Berlin 15th July. 1838 My dear Mr Bennett
Your letter gave me great pleasure and I wish I could express to you how much I like to read or to hear from you. You must not judge of me from my Correspondence, for God made me the very worst letter-writer in the universe and indeed I am still doubtful whether I ought to have ventured upon an English one if I had not the most important reason for answering yours directly. This is your question about Leipzig. As far as I am personally concerned and as far as all those are whom I know & of whom I have heard I have but one answer to give to this question which is to ask you to come at all events, & to stay as long as you can, & to promise you the heartiest welcome. In fact you must know how delighted every body shall be to see you again, & I need scarcely repeat it. Whether you will have so much advantage of it, as we shall is a different question, which is really not so easily answered; but on this subject I dare say you did not mean to ask my advice, & would take nobody’s but your own. I hear the Directors have written to you and asked you to come over, and it would be such a pleasure to have you again at our Concerts, & to hear your new Orchestral things conducted by yourself, & to have the new Caprice & the Concerto, & the public would be so very mad, when they would see you again in the Orchestra. And then we would have some more music together than the first time, and no Birmingham uproar, & I think you should like my house & the whole stay in Leipzig, and the more I speak of it the more I think that you really must come. The fact is I took it for granted, and Novello wrote, you had told him so, & now you write you would stay till October at Cambridge, & the thing seems doubtful again. I hope it will not remain so, & you will write me the sooner the better that we are to see you, & that you will stay a good time with us. I cannot give you news from Leipzig, as you see by the date of this letter, I am here since May & shall not return to Leipzig but in 3 or 4 weeks; it is so long I have not been with my mother & sisters & they like so much to live with my wife & myself that I enjoy this time very much. We are all in good health & think of you & speak of you very often. I hope we will soon meet, & you will bring all sorts of your music with you, scores & parts & everything. I have composed two new Rondo’s for the Piano, which I hope you will like although they are not very grand fellows, but merry one’s; the 1st with accompaniments, the 2d without; and a new Psalm, & a third Violin Quartett I am going to finish & a Symphony in B must soon begun. Also a Sonata with Violoncello &c &c. And what new things have you? And how is Mr. Coventry? And your friend Davison? And when will Mrs. Shaw be with us? And how do you like Benedicts Opera, of which I read a great deal in the paper here? And before all when will you come and how long will you stay with us at Leipzig?
Pray answer this question soon, very soon, & in the most positive manner, saying yes. My English Style must now have an Hongarian touch; but never mind you will understand the meaning. Pray send me soon some lines & I am always
yrs very truly
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy.
Till the middle of next month I beg you will direct to this place, from then again to Leipzig.          

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Sterndale Bennett</addrLine> <addrLine>Esqure</addrLine> <addrLine>Royal Academy of Music</addrLine> <addrLine><hi n="1" rend="underline">London</hi>.</addrLine> </address> </head> </div> <div n="1" type="act_of_writing" xml:id="div_c5f48cba-6197-4d7e-a124-4d0d741ee8e5"> <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> <dateline rend="right">Berlin <date cert="high" when="1838-07-15" xml:id="date_086f17fa-9b96-48cf-88d2-8dbe6ef643c3">15<hi rend="superscript">th</hi> July. 1838</date></dateline> <salute rend="left">My dear Mr Bennett</salute> <p style="paragraph_without_indent">Your letter gave me great pleasure and I wish I could express to you how much I like to read or to hear from you. You must not judge of me from my Correspondence, for God made me the very worst letter-writer in the universe and indeed I am still doubtful whether I ought to have ventured upon an English one if I had not the most important reason for answering yours directly. This is your question about Leipzig. As far as I am personally concerned and as far as all those are whom I know &amp; of whom I have heard I have but one answer to give to this question which is to ask you to come at all events, &amp; to stay as long as you can, &amp; to promise you the heartiest welcome. In fact you must know how <hi rend="underline">delighted</hi> every body shall be to see you again, &amp; I need scarcely repeat it. Whether <hi rend="underline">you</hi> will have so much advantage of it, as <hi rend="underline">we</hi> shall is a different question, which is really not so easily answered; but on this subject I dare say you did not mean to ask my advice, &amp; would take nobody’s but your own. I hear the <placeName xml:id="placeName_4c15016e-eaaa-4905-ae7b-8fd6223a933d">Directors<name key="NST0100328" style="hidden" subtype="" type="institution">Gewandhaus</name><settlement key="STM0100116" style="hidden" type="">Leipzig</settlement><country style="hidden">Deutschland</country></placeName> have written to you and asked you to come over, and it would be such a pleasure to have you again at <placeName xml:id="placeName_0960883c-8da9-4a47-a99b-2cdee16b54d3">our Concerts<name key="NST0100117" style="hidden" subtype="" type="institution">Gewandhaus</name><settlement key="STM0100116" style="hidden" type="">Leipzig</settlement><country style="hidden">Deutschland</country></placeName>, &amp; to hear your new Orchestral things conducted by yourself, &amp; to have the <title xml:id="title_5df2af55-5ca6-4ef4-82a5-f920c35c597e">new Caprice<name key="PSN0109864" style="hidden" type="author">Bennett, (seit 1871) Sir William Sterndale (1816-1875)</name><name key="CRT0108145" style="hidden" type="music">Caprice für Klavier und Orchester E-Dur, op. 22</name></title> &amp; the <title xml:id="title_1cb1e3ec-0d2b-49a9-8f62-df44c4fc9dba">Concerto<name key="PSN0109864" style="hidden" type="author">Bennett, (seit 1871) Sir William Sterndale (1816-1875)</name><name key="CRT0108151" style="hidden" type="music">4. Klavierkonzert f-Moll, op. 19</name></title>, &amp; the public would be so <hi rend="underline">very</hi> mad, when they would see you again in the Orchestra. And then we would have some more music together than the first time, and no Birmingham uproar, &amp; I think you should like my house &amp; the whole stay in Leipzig, and the more I speak of it the more I think that you really <hi rend="underline">must</hi> come. The fact is I took it for granted, and <persName xml:id="persName_99361a6d-2c93-4842-b07f-8eb4494f6615">Novello<name key="PSN0113624" style="hidden">Novello, Joseph Alfred (1810-1896)</name></persName> wrote, you had told him so, &amp; now you write you would stay till October at Cambridge, &amp; the thing seems doubtful again. I hope it will not remain so, &amp; you will write me the sooner the better that we are to see you, &amp; that you will stay a good time with us. I cannot give you news from Leipzig, as you see by the date of this letter, I am here since May &amp; shall not return to Leipzig but in 3 or 4 weeks; it is so long I have not been with my <persName xml:id="persName_a4f349e1-3aaa-4d55-906f-157371dbe4c7">mother<name key="PSN0113260" style="hidden">Mendelssohn Bartholdy (bis 1816: Mendelssohn), Lea Felicia Pauline (1777-1842)</name></persName> &amp; <persName xml:id="persName_4296363e-9a99-4ca0-97e7-ff496b13435c">sisters<name key="PSN0111893" style="hidden">Hensel, Fanny Cäcilia (1805-1847)</name><name key="PSN0110673" style="hidden">Dirichlet (Lejeune Dirichlet), Rebecka Henriette (1811-1858)</name></persName> &amp; they like so much to live with <persName xml:id="persName_19c9b78a-44a2-448c-863c-603f995dcdf4">my wife<name key="PSN0113252" style="hidden">Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Cécile Sophie Charlotte (1817-1853)</name></persName> &amp; myself that I enjoy this time very much. We are all in good health &amp; think of you &amp; speak of you very often. I hope we will soon meet, &amp; you will bring all sorts of your music with you, scores &amp; parts &amp; everything. I have composed <title xml:id="title_0d067e0e-0355-4714-a5e8-9c39760a75db">two new Rondo’s for the Piano<list style="hidden" type="fmb_works_directory" xml:id="title_gdwkohyz-ftqw-mcac-pdxc-jwawyscs7h9z"> <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="concerts_and_concertante_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="PRC0100354" style="hidden">Serenade und Allegro giojoso h-Moll / D-Dur für Klavier und Orchester bzw. Streichorchester, [Ende März 1838] bis 1. April 1838<idno type="MWV">O 12</idno><idno type="op">43</idno></name><list style="hidden" type="fmb_works_directory" xml:id="title_vrqldqc4-yrf9-begx-cfcx-cmt9sb0pajmk"> <item n="1" sortKey="musical_works" style="hidden"></item> <item n="2" sortKey="instrumental_music" style="hidden"></item> <item n="3" sortKey="piano_music" style="hidden"></item> <item n="4" sortKey="works_for_piano_two_hands" style="hidden"></item></list><name key="PSN0000001" style="hidden" type="author">Mendelssohn Bartholdy (bis 1816: Mendelssohn), Jacob Ludwig Felix (1809-1847)</name><name key="PRC0100480" style="hidden">Andante cantabile e Presto agitato H-Dur / h-Moll, 22. Juni 1838<idno type="MWV">U 141</idno><idno type="op"></idno></name></title>, which I hope you will like although they are not very grand fellows, but merry one’s; the 1<hi rend="superscript">st</hi> with accompaniments, the 2<hi rend="superscript">d</hi> without; and a <title xml:id="title_0f6183e6-b10e-4723-b9cd-ebf02af9aa16">new Psalm<list style="hidden" type="fmb_works_directory" xml:id="title_gjybkibv-ofnb-9icw-in6u-v9vncyew7uc6"> <item n="1" sortKey="musical_works" style="hidden"></item> <item n="2" sortKey="vocal_music" style="hidden"></item> <item n="3" sortKey="sacred_vocal_music" style="hidden"></item> <item n="4" sortKey="large-scale_sacred_vocal_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="PRC0100116" style="hidden">Der 95. Psalm »Kommt, lasst uns anbeten« für Solostimmen, gemischten Chor, Orchester und Orgel, 6. April 1838; [1839]; 3. Juli 1841<idno type="MWV">A 16</idno><idno type="op">46</idno></name></title>, &amp; <title xml:id="title_01c09230-1b13-4712-9f92-104714a5a196">a third Violin Quartett<list style="hidden" type="fmb_works_directory" xml:id="title_kl4be9fu-c4zs-cban-pozd-lxvoycgpxelp"> <item n="1" sortKey="musical_works" style="hidden"></item> <item n="2" sortKey="instrumental_music" style="hidden"></item> <item n="3" sortKey="chamber_music" style="hidden"></item> <item n="4" sortKey="chamber_music_works_without_piano" style="hidden"></item></list><name key="PSN0000001" style="hidden" type="author">Mendelssohn Bartholdy (bis 1816: Mendelssohn), Jacob Ludwig Felix (1809-1847)</name><name key="PRC0100398" style="hidden">Quartett D-Dur für zwei Violinen, Viola und Violoncello, [April (?) bis Ende Juli 1838]<idno type="MWV">R 30</idno><idno type="op">44/1</idno></name></title> I am going to finish &amp; a <title xml:id="title_f4b9d1df-28c8-497c-8758-ece9af9e82d4">Symphony<list style="hidden" type="fmb_works_directory" xml:id="title_3mrpe4mv-81us-lt4z-mar5-y0nojblh3xz6"> <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="symphonies" style="hidden"></item></list><name key="PSN0000001" style="hidden" type="author">Mendelssohn Bartholdy (bis 1816: Mendelssohn), Jacob Ludwig Felix (1809-1847)</name><name key="PRC0100343" style="hidden">Sinfonie B-Dur für Orchester, Fragment, [ca. 1838 bis 1840]<idno type="MWV">N 17</idno><idno type="op"></idno></name></title> in B must soon begun. Also <title xml:id="title_ab13600e-b697-4da9-b09e-19edf4524b2f">a Sonata with Violoncello<list style="hidden" type="fmb_works_directory" xml:id="title_8sewoa9o-qiwo-bbw5-u1q4-snmtuhjmlqsg"> <item n="1" sortKey="musical_works" style="hidden"></item> <item n="2" sortKey="instrumental_music" style="hidden"></item> <item n="3" sortKey="chamber_music" style="hidden"></item> <item n="4" sortKey="chamber_music_with_piano" style="hidden"></item></list><name key="PSN0000001" style="hidden" type="author">Mendelssohn Bartholdy (bis 1816: Mendelssohn), Jacob Ludwig Felix (1809-1847)</name><name key="PRC0100385" style="hidden">Sonate B-Dur für Violoncello und Klavier, 13. Oktober 1838<idno type="MWV">Q 27</idno><idno type="op">45</idno></name></title> &amp;c &amp;c. And what new things have you? And how is <persName xml:id="persName_a3383f44-7d7d-450a-a9ad-01a7b3869e6f">Mr. Coventry<name key="PSN0110481" style="hidden">Coventry, Charles (1798-1856)</name></persName>? And <persName xml:id="persName_52a9e94c-93f6-4c1a-81b3-721eea3500dd">your friend Davison<name key="PSN0110575" style="hidden">Davison, James William (1813-1885)</name></persName>? And when will <persName xml:id="persName_adef776b-8728-437a-8c66-cdf4198e4af3">Mrs. Shaw<name key="PSN0114893" style="hidden">Shaw, Mary (1814-1876)</name></persName> be with us? And how do you like <title xml:id="title_a5967c0e-2680-4d38-a011-e8f33720859d">Benedicts Opera<name key="PSN0109851" style="hidden" type="author">Benedict, (seit 1871) Sir Julius (Jules) (vorh. Isaac) (1804-1885)</name><name key="CRT0108142" style="hidden" type="music">The Gypsy’s Warning</name></title>, of which I read a great deal in the paper here? And before all when will you come and how long will you stay with us at Leipzig?</p> <p>Pray answer this question soon, very soon, &amp; in the most posi[tive] manner, saying yes. My English Style must now have an Hongarian touch; but never mind you will understand the meaning. <seg type="closer" xml:id="seg_bc363838-0885-45da-b09a-fa1f204bdff6">Pray send me soon some lines &amp; I am always</seg></p> <signed rend="right">yrs very truly</signed> <signed rend="right">Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy.</signed> </div> <div n="2" type="act_of_writing" xml:id="div_dcbb5a83-9e1a-4db6-8c27-371abc48c6f7"> <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> <p style="paragraph_without_indent">Till the middle of next month I beg you will direct to this place, from then again to Leipzig.</p> </div> </body></text></TEI>