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William Sterndale Bennett an Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy in Berlin <lb></lb>London, 2. Juli 1838 I am very unhappy that I hear nothing from my friends in Leipzig and particulary from you – The onlys news that I received of you was from Alfred Novello who told me you were Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Correspondence Online (FMB-C) Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy an William Sterndale Bennett in London, adressiert an die Royal Academy of Music; Berlin, 15. Juli 1838 Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy an William Sterndale Bennett in London, adressiert an die Royal Academy of Music; Berlin, 15. Juli 1838 Bennett, (seit 1871) Sir William Sterndale (1816-1875)Bennett, (seit 1871) Sir William Sterndale (1816-1875) Transkription: FMB-C Edition: Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Correspondence Online-Ausgabe (FMB-C). Institut für Musikwissenschaft und Medienwissenschaft. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
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Großbritannien Oxford GB-Ob Oxford, Bodleian Library Music Section M.D.M. d. 34/2. Autograph William Sterndale Bennett an Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy in Berlin; London, 2. Juli 1838 I am very unhappy that I hear nothing from my friends in Leipzig and particulary from you – The onlys news that I received of you was from Alfred Novello who told me you were

1 Doppelbl.: S. 1-3 Brieftext; S. 4 Adresse, 4 Poststempel [LEIPZIG / 9 JUL 38] [LONDON / 3 / JUL / 1838 ] [N-4 / 10/7] [PAID / VS / 3 JY 2 / 1838]. Der Brief wurde vollständig in lateinischen Buchstaben geschrieben.

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2. Juli 1838 Bennett, (seit 1871) Sir William Sterndale (1816-1875)counter-resetBennett, (seit 1871) Sir William Sterndale (1816–1875) LondonGroßbritannien Mendelssohn Bartholdy (bis 1816: Mendelssohn), Jacob Ludwig Felix (1809-1847) BerlinDeutschland englisch
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Bennett, (seit 1871) Sir William Sterndale (1816–1875) Bennett, (seit 1871) Sir William Sterndale (1816–1875) London. July 2nd 1838. My Dear Mr. Mendelssohn.

I am very unhappy that I hear nothing from my friends in LeipzigLeipzigDeutschland and particulary from you – The onlys news that I received of you was from Alfred NovelloNovello, Joseph Alfred (1810-1896) who told me you were quite well when he saw you in Cologne.he saw you in Cologne – Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy hielt sich ab 25. Mai 1838 zum 20. Niederrheinischen Musikfest in Köln auf. This of course I was very happy to hear but would much prefer to hear it from yourself – I very often think of you and wish to be with you again which if God is willing I wish do as soon as possible. The Season in LondonThe Season in London – Gemeint ist die Konzertsaison der Philharmonic Society in London. is nearly over and altogether I consider we have not had a very brillant display of talent. DöhlerDöhler, Theodor (seit 1846) von (1814-1856) has been the Lion but I think has not made any great reputation here, the English people are actually getting |2| very fastidious and require, everybody to be quite „perfection“. We have had hundred of clasical classical Chamber Concerts and scene performences – – The Philharmonic ConcertsPhilharmonic SocietyLondonGroßbritannien are now over. At the last, I played a new Concerto (in F. Minor)<name key="PSN0109864" style="hidden" type="author">Bennett, (seit 1871) Sir William Sterndale (1816–1875)</name><name key="CRT0108147" style="hidden" type="music">Klavierkonzert f-Moll, WoO 32 (1836)</name> we had Beethovens Symphony in Bb<name key="PSN0109771" style="hidden" type="author">Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770–1827)</name><name key="CRT0108065" style="hidden" type="music">4. Sinfonie B-Dur, op. 60</name> and your Symphony<list style="hidden" type="fmb_works_directory" xml:id="title_pkx8mkmj-gefh-nxr0-vq7d-vl6r099mtphw"> <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="PRC0100342" style="hidden">Sinfonie A-Dur (»Italienische«) für Orchester, [Ende 1830] bis 13. März 1833; [Juni 1834 bis Anfang 1835]<idno type="MWV">N 16</idno><idno type="op">90</idno></name> in a – which I heard for the first time – what a joyons thing it is, and I think the 1st movement quite beautiful and hope you will not alter it – it was well performed and directed by MoschelesMoscheles, Ignaz (Isack) (1794-1870)well performed and directed by Moscheles – siehe Foster, Philharmonic Society, S. 152. – I have given a Concert in London (25 th May) and played Spohr’s Symphony in D minor<name key="PSN0115032" style="hidden" type="author">Spohr, Louis (Ludewig) (1784–1859)</name><name key="CRT0112093" style="hidden" type="music">2. Sinfonie d-Moll, op. 49</name>, your overture (Hebriden)<list style="hidden" type="fmb_works_directory" xml:id="title_qcqkgep5-pw8e-4y4j-lob2-p3frnpldymki"> <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="PRC0100363" style="hidden">Konzert-Ouvertüre Nr. 2 Die Hebriden / The Isles of Fingal (Zur einsamen Insel) h-Moll (»Fingals Höhle«), 7. August 1829 bis 16. Dezember 1830; Umarbeitung bis 20. Juni 1832<idno type="MWV">P 7</idno><idno type="op">26</idno></name> and Webers Preciosa<name key="PSN0115645" style="hidden" type="author">Weber, Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von (1786–1826)</name><name key="CRT0111261" style="hidden" type="music">Preciosa (Musik zum Schauspiel) op. 78 (WeV F. 22)</name> Moscheles played with me the „Hommage à Handel“<name key="PSN0113441" style="hidden" type="author">Moscheles, Ignaz (Isack) (1794–1870)</name><name key="CRT0110034" style="hidden" type="music">»Hommage à Haendel«. Grand Duo par deux Pianofortes G-Dur, op. 92</name>Moscheles playe… the „Hommage à Handel“ – Ignaz Moscheles, »Hommage à Haendel«. Grand Duo par deux Pianofortes G-Dur, op. 92; Entstehungszeit: 1822-1835; Druck in Leipzig: F. Kistner, ca. 1835. I played my Concerts<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>my Concerts – In dem Brief von William Sterndale Bennett und James William Davison an Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy vom 30. März 1838 (Brief gb-1838-03-30-01) berichtete Bennett noch, am 25. Mai 1838 eine neue Ouvertüre uraufführen zu wollen, vermutlich Die Waldnymphe op. 20, spielte aber stattdessen sein Klavierkonzert Nr. 4. Auch der Musikverleger Charles Coventry kündigte explizit an: »May 25th […] he plays a new Caprice, with Accts the Concerts in F. minor and a duett with Moscheles Hommage a Handel, […] but no Overture of his own«. Siehe Brief gb-1838-05-18-01 Charles Coventry an Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy in Leipzig, London, 18. Mai 1838. and a new Caprice with accompaniments<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>; which I hope someday to play to you.

|3| Report saith, that you will come to England next year, I hope so truly and should like to visit Leipzig and afterward come home with you – If I do not come this year I fear not able for many years. Do shall await your advice – Your new Concerto<list style="hidden" type="fmb_works_directory" xml:id="title_yahghcco-lqqk-dv39-lbkq-yymgeswtvx9i"> <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="PRC0100387" style="hidden">Trio Nr. 1 (Grand Trio) d-Moll für Violine, Violoncello und Klavier, [Februar 1839] bis 18. Juli 1839; 23. September 1839<idno type="MWV">Q 29</idno><idno type="op">49</idno></name> will be played to morrow by Mad. DulckenDulcken, Marie Louise (1811-1850) at her Concert which she gives with Döhler –

Noten: GB-Ob, M.D.M. d. 34/2, fol. 3r Notennotat von William Sterndale Bennett
&c And now let me ask you seriously, how you are in health? were you now in England you would surely die as the weather is coretchedly dull, the people are all exhausted with the Coronation and cannot recover themselves, in fact LondonLondonGroßbritannien stands now on its head and cannot find its feet – how delightful would it be to get out of the busy metropolis which I hope to do soon & go to CambridgeCambridgeGroßbritannien – where I remain tile October |4| Let me hear from you soon and give me all your good advice – Will you tell MonickeMonicke, Adelaide to write to me?, also SchumannSchumann, Robert Alexander (1810-1856)? – and now with best Compliments to your good ladyMendelssohn Bartholdy, Cécile Sophie Charlotte (1817-1853) & familyMendelssohn Bartholdy, Familie von → Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy let me subscribe myself.

Your very Truly Sterndale Bennett
Bennett, (seit 1871) Sir William Sterndale (1816–1875) Bennett, (seit 1871) Sir William Sterndale (1816–1875)

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            London. July 2nd 1838. My Dear Mr. Mendelssohn.
I am very unhappy that I hear nothing from my friends in Leipzig and particulary from you – The onlys news that I received of you was from Alfred Novello who told me you were quite well when he saw you in Cologne. This of course I was very happy to hear but would much prefer to hear it from yourself – I very often think of you and wish to be with you again which if God is willing I wish do as soon as possible. The Season in London is nearly over and altogether I consider we have not had a very brillant display of talent. Döhler has been the Lion but I think has not made any great reputation here, the English people are actually getting very fastidious and require, everybody to be quite „perfection“. We have had hundred of clasical Chamber Concerts and scene performences – – The Philharmonic Concerts are now over. At the last, I played a new Concerto (in F. Minor) we had Beethovens Symphony in Bb and your Symphony in a – which I heard for the first time – what a joyons thing it is, and I think the 1st movement quite beautiful and hope you will not alter it – it was well performed and directed by Moscheles – I have given a Concert in London (25 th May) and played Spohr’s Symphony in D minor, your overture (Hebriden) and Webers Preciosa Moscheles played with me the „Hommage à Handel“ I played my Concerts and a new Caprice with accompaniments; which I hope someday to play to you.
 Report saith, that you will come to England next year, I hope so truly and should like to visit Leipzig and afterward come home with you – If I do not come this year I fear not able for many years. Do shall await your advice – Your new Concerto will be played to morrow by Mad. Dulcken at her Concert which she gives with Döhler – &c And now let me ask you seriously, how you are in health? were you now in England you would surely die as the weather is coretchedly dull, the people are all exhausted with the Coronation and cannot recover themselves, in fact London stands now on its head and cannot find its feet – how delightful would it be to get out of the busy metropolis which I hope to do soon & go to Cambridge – where I remain tile October Let me hear from you soon and give me all your good advice – Will you tell Monicke to write to me?, also Schumann? – and now with best Compliments to your good lady & family let me subscribe myself.
Your very Truly
Sterndale Bennett
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The Season in London<note resp="FMBC" style="hidden" type="single_place_comment" xml:id="note_b9864900-747d-4c85-b831-b0787bc0179a" xml:lang="en">The Season in London – Gemeint ist die Konzertsaison der Philharmonic Society in London. </note> is nearly over and altogether I consider we have not had a very brillant display of talent. <persName xml:id="persName_b54cbf76-f8b5-407b-80d3-33aa044b6372">Döhler<name key="PSN0110686" style="hidden" type="person">Döhler, Theodor (seit 1846) von (1814-1856)</name></persName> has been the Lion but I think has not made any great reputation here, the English people are actually getting<seg type="pagebreak"> |2| <pb n="2" type="pagebreak"></pb></seg>very fastidious and require, everybody to be quite „perfection“. We have had hundred of <choice resp="editor" source="autograph_edition_template" xml:id="choice_a751d7ed-9051-4831-a118-6a734557e1ba"> <sic resp="writer">clasical</sic> <corr resp="editor">classical</corr> </choice> Chamber Concerts and scene performences – – The <placeName xml:id="placeName_bd4f10ab-671e-4a86-b8a5-dd55e9a5a420">Philharmonic Concerts<name key="NST0100287" style="hidden" subtype="" type="institution">Philharmonic Society</name><settlement key="STM0100126" style="hidden" type="locality">London</settlement><country style="hidden">Großbritannien</country></placeName> are now over. At the last, I played a new <title xml:id="title_2e9685b6-8d37-4c28-a136-2213f73bced2">Concerto (in F. Minor)<name key="PSN0109864" style="hidden" type="author">Bennett, (seit 1871) Sir William Sterndale (1816–1875)</name><name key="CRT0108147" style="hidden" type="music">Klavierkonzert f-Moll, WoO 32 (1836)</name></title> we had <title xml:id="title_1b4ca4f9-c37c-40d9-8dc2-5a9f82fbfd1b">Beethovens Symphony in Bb<name key="PSN0109771" style="hidden" type="author">Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770–1827)</name><name key="CRT0108065" style="hidden" type="music">4. Sinfonie B-Dur, op. 60</name></title> and <title xml:id="title_b802546f-795d-4926-a83b-6f38d2f42399">your Symphony<list style="hidden" type="fmb_works_directory" xml:id="title_pkx8mkmj-gefh-nxr0-vq7d-vl6r099mtphw"> <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="PRC0100342" style="hidden">Sinfonie A-Dur (»Italienische«) für Orchester, [Ende 1830] bis 13. März 1833; [Juni 1834 bis Anfang 1835]<idno type="MWV">N 16</idno><idno type="op">90</idno></name></title> in a – which I heard for the first time – what a joyons thing it is, and I think the 1<hi rend="superscript">st</hi> movement quite beautiful and hope you will not alter it – it was well performed and directed by <persName xml:id="persName_9d90c2dd-2e0b-4134-8eca-ea254a3791f1">Moscheles<name key="PSN0113441" style="hidden" type="person">Moscheles, Ignaz (Isack) (1794-1870)</name></persName><note resp="FMBC" style="hidden" type="single_place_comment" xml:id="note_56578be3-1c85-4b1e-99c9-f3cc6077c844" xml:lang="en">well performed and directed by Moscheles – siehe Foster, Philharmonic Society, S. 152.</note> – I have given a Concert in London (<date cert="high" when="1838-05-25" xml:id="date_c7fe46a4-4844-43ea-bf39-d16847b53924">25 <hi rend="superscript">th</hi> May</date>) and played <title xml:id="title_fc8d9682-8462-4a3f-859d-56f01c231f9e">Spohr’s Symphony in D minor<name key="PSN0115032" style="hidden" type="author">Spohr, Louis (Ludewig) (1784–1859)</name><name key="CRT0112093" style="hidden" type="music">2. Sinfonie d-Moll, op. 49</name></title>, <title xml:id="title_f01bbec9-1601-4fc7-9640-2d24c941478a">your overture (Hebriden)<list style="hidden" type="fmb_works_directory" xml:id="title_qcqkgep5-pw8e-4y4j-lob2-p3frnpldymki"> <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="PRC0100363" style="hidden">Konzert-Ouvertüre Nr. 2 Die Hebriden / The Isles of Fingal (Zur einsamen Insel) h-Moll (»Fingals Höhle«), 7. August 1829 bis 16. Dezember 1830; Umarbeitung bis 20. Juni 1832<idno type="MWV">P 7</idno><idno type="op">26</idno></name></title> and <title xml:id="title_9fce80f8-7402-484a-a981-492e0733af2a">Webers Preciosa<name key="PSN0115645" style="hidden" type="author">Weber, Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von (1786–1826)</name><name key="CRT0111261" style="hidden" type="music">Preciosa (Musik zum Schauspiel) op. 78 (WeV F. 22)</name></title> Moscheles played with me <gap quantity="1" reason="deletion" unit="words"></gap> the <title xml:id="title_642c6f3b-8213-4ea5-af22-b74da039ff2b">„Hommage à Handel“<name key="PSN0113441" style="hidden" type="author">Moscheles, Ignaz (Isack) (1794–1870)</name><name key="CRT0110034" style="hidden" type="music">»Hommage à Haendel«. Grand Duo par deux Pianofortes G-Dur, op. 92</name></title><note resp="FMBC" style="hidden" type="single_place_comment" xml:id="note_48e32c96-6095-4294-a24e-f942bcaaa08b" xml:lang="en">Moscheles playe… the „Hommage à Handel“ – Ignaz Moscheles, »Hommage à Haendel«. Grand Duo par deux Pianofortes G-Dur, op. 92; Entstehungszeit: 1822-1835; Druck in Leipzig: F. Kistner, ca. 1835.</note> I played <title xml:id="title_fa256355-d046-433a-9c04-006edceb883c">my Concerts<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><note resp="FMBC" style="hidden" type="single_place_comment" xml:id="note_05f117c9-af35-410f-93d3-2c9fda895cd1" xml:lang="en">my Concerts – In dem Brief von William Sterndale Bennett und James William Davison an Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy vom 30. März 1838 (Brief gb-1838-03-30-01) berichtete Bennett noch, am 25. Mai 1838 eine neue Ouvertüre uraufführen zu wollen, vermutlich Die Waldnymphe op. 20, spielte aber stattdessen sein Klavierkonzert Nr. 4. Auch der Musikverleger Charles Coventry kündigte explizit an: »May 25th […] he plays a new Caprice, with Accts the Concerts in F. minor and a duett with Moscheles Hommage a Handel, […] but no Overture of his own«. Siehe Brief gb-1838-05-18-01 Charles Coventry an Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy in Leipzig, London, 18. Mai 1838.</note> and a <title xml:id="title_9c6a530f-2ae1-4a8e-b1f8-aea6a7964c19">new Caprice with accompaniments<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>; which I hope someday to play to you.</p> <p><seg type="pagebreak"> |3| <pb n="3" type="pagebreak"></pb></seg>Report saith, that you will come to England next year, I hope so truly and should like to visit Leipzig and afterward come home with you – If I do not come this year I fear not able for many years. Do shall await your advice – <title xml:id="title_a3e2fd2c-2e84-4018-9b7a-6c8535b72cce">Your new Concerto<list style="hidden" type="fmb_works_directory" xml:id="title_yahghcco-lqqk-dv39-lbkq-yymgeswtvx9i"> <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="PRC0100387" style="hidden">Trio Nr. 1 (Grand Trio) d-Moll für Violine, Violoncello und Klavier, [Februar 1839] bis 18. Juli 1839; 23. September 1839<idno type="MWV">Q 29</idno><idno type="op">49</idno></name></title> will be played <date cert="high" when="1838-07-03" xml:id="date_e535e626-b473-4a17-8cae-473e18592d18">to morrow</date> by Mad. <persName xml:id="persName_7b0c76b5-497b-41b2-b960-c24dd779677a">Dulcken<name key="PSN0110768" style="hidden" type="person">Dulcken, Marie Louise (1811-1850)</name></persName> at her Concert which she gives with Döhler – <figure rend="inline" style="inline" subtype="inline" type="notated_Music" xml:id="figure_7884e40b-e2f1-43f9-9767-b6bd62fa5321"> <graphic url="https://www.felix-mendelssohn-bartholdy.org/_api/letters/letter_image/Noten/gb-1838-07-02-01-N-001.jpg"></graphic> <head style="display_none">Noten: GB-Ob, M.D.M. d. 34/2, fol. 3r </head> <figDesc style="display_none">Notennotat von William Sterndale Bennett</figDesc> </figure> &amp;c And now let me ask you seriously, how you are in health? were you now in England you would surely die as the weather is coretchedly dull, the people are all exhausted with the Coronation and cannot recover themselves, in fact <placeName xml:id="placeName_2f1f7da5-50e4-42f0-be1c-a2e32295b1ae">London<settlement key="STM0100126" style="hidden" type="locality">London</settlement><country style="hidden">Großbritannien</country></placeName> stands now on its head and cannot find its feet – how delightful would it be to get out of the busy metropolis which I hope to do soon &amp; go to <placeName xml:id="placeName_4967e09c-c9e7-4b1b-b0bc-f0b45de6c0f0">Cambridge<settlement key="STM0100606" style="hidden" type="locality">Cambridge</settlement><country style="hidden">Großbritannien</country></placeName> – where I remain tile October<seg type="pagebreak"> |4| <pb n="4" type="pagebreak"></pb></seg>Let me hear from you soon and give me all your good advice – Will you tell <persName xml:id="persName_a2f37d04-2268-4562-a2ee-d14b326ec466">Monicke<name key="PSN0117637" style="hidden" type="person">Monicke, Adelaide</name></persName> to write to me?, also <persName xml:id="persName_45751ee0-e3c1-452a-8045-65686223c4fa">Schumann<name key="PSN0114758" style="hidden" type="person">Schumann, Robert Alexander (1810-1856)</name></persName>? – and now with best Compliments to your good <persName xml:id="persName_c81fb97c-573f-46c8-9e24-07d791d70c7e">lady<name key="PSN0113252" style="hidden" type="person">Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Cécile Sophie Charlotte (1817-1853)</name></persName> &amp; <persName xml:id="persName_0f199b72-7f2a-42e0-a2ac-ed68e92e2d74">family<name key="PSN0113242" style="hidden" type="person">Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Familie von → Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy</name></persName> let me subscribe myself.</p> <signed rend="right">Your very Truly </signed> <signed rend="right">Sterndale Bennett</signed> </div> <div n="2" type="act_of_writing" xml:id="div_e418cf04-a2ca-464a-a2fa-a2aef5e56bf9"> <docAuthor key="PSN0109864" resp="author" style="hidden">Bennett, (seit 1871) Sir William Sterndale (1816–1875)</docAuthor> <docAuthor key="PSN0109864" resp="writer" style="hidden">Bennett, (seit 1871) Sir William Sterndale (1816–1875)</docAuthor> <p style="paragraph_without_indent">add.</p> <p style="paragraph_without_indent"><placeName xml:id="placeName_bced1801-8403-48b0-b8a8-84a30d3f332c">Royal Academy of Music <name key="NST0100563" style="hidden" subtype="" type="institution">Royal Academy of Music</name><settlement key="STM0100126" style="hidden" type="locality">London</settlement><country style="hidden">Großbritannien</country></placeName></p> <p style="paragraph_without_indent">London.</p> </div> </body> </text></TEI>