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            Leipzig 27 February 1839. Dear Sir
I avail myself of Mr. David’s departure for London to answer your letter of the 4th, and beg before all other things to recommend the bearer, my very particular friend and one of our most distinguished musicians to your kind and friendly reception. Be so kind to him as you and all the members of your Society have always been to me, I need then not add another word and am sure he will derive the same treat and pleasure from his visit to England that I always felt and for which I shall always continue thankful whenever I think of it again.
I communicated to Mr. David that the Society offered him an engagement for the 18th of next month (as you mention in your letter) and I dare say he will be very happy in accepting it.
As for myself I am sorry to say I have been obliged to give up my intended visit to your country. Some of our Concerts having been postponed to the end of March, and the festival which I am to conduct taking place in May, I should not have time enough to make any stay in London and must postpone my visit to another year. I hope and wish it might be next. Present my thanks to the Directors for their kind intention and I hope they will allow me to avail myself of it at a future period, to which I look forward with true pleasure.
I shall send you Hillers Overtures immediately when I shall have his permission to do so, which I have asked the same day I received your letter, but his present stay being at Milan I have not yet had an answer.
Believe me, dear Sir, very truly yours Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy.          

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Niederrheinisches Musikfest (1839)</name><settlement key="STM0100109" style="hidden" type="">Düsseldorf</settlement><country style="hidden">Deutschland</country></placeName> which I am to conduct taking place in May, I should not have time enough to make any stay in London and must postpone my visit to another year. I hope and wish it might be next. Present my thanks to the Directors for their kind intention and I hope they will allow me to avail myself of it at a future period, to which I look forward with true pleasure. </p> <p>I shall send you <persName xml:id="persName_c7253f52-91c8-4639-be2b-5b6d576534fb">Hillers<name key="PSN0112003" style="hidden">Hiller, Ferdinand (seit 1875) von (1811-1885)</name></persName> Overtures immediately when I shall have his permission to do so, which I have asked the same day I received your letter, but his present stay being at Milan I have not yet had an answer.</p> <closer rend="left">Believe me, dear Sir, very truly yours</closer> <signed rend="right">Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy.</signed> </div> </body> </text></TEI>