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            Kensington Gravel Pits Decr 28th 1839 Fanny’s date Decr 31st eve of 40!!!! I have long wished to write to you but a variety of circumstances has prevented me. We heard with great pleasure of the birth of your little girl. Is she like her Mamma, and does your boy still ask you to play & suceed in persuading you as we were told he always would do? –
It is a great delight to me to be able to tell you how entirely satisfied we are with the course we have pursued with dear Charles. He corresponds sometimes I believe with Mr David, & from him perhaps you have heard how happy he is. The letters we receive from Mr Hauptmann give him much credit for his industry, and the compositions he has sent home, prove to Mr Horsley that he is in the right path to make a sound musician. Charles finds Mr Hauptmann a kind friend as well as master, & he likes Wiele too very much. We saw the Spohrs and Madame von Malsburg at dinner here when they were in England and since their return they have all been much attentive to Charles. Madame Malzburgh is particularly friendly to him & he finds her home most agreeable. She appeared to me a most amiable woman & I think she said she was acquainted with you. Charles is at this time spending his Christmas at Detmold with Mr Rosen which will make a pleasant change to him but he will be back in Cassel next week. He speaks in the warmest terms of the great kindness & hospitality he receives from all your countrymen & especially from the excellent family with whom he lives. The only drawback to Cassel in a Musical point of view, is the want of a good Pianoforte or Organ Master, & still more the impossibility of getting practice on the latter instrument. Mr Horsley deeply regrets this, as Charles has particular talent for it – however, I trust some arrangement may soon be made.
I know you feel a true interest in our concerns & I shall not therefore scruple to tell you a little more family news. Do you remember meeting in Rome at Horace Vernets, & at the Bendemanns a Dr Thompson, a young English physician? He returned to England about two years ago and established himself in London & as the son of one of my oldest acquaintances, renewed his intimacy with us. This has led to an attachment between him & Fanny, and they are now engaged, though their marriage will probably not take place for two or three years to come. It is a connection particularly pleasing to us, for we believe him to be a man in every respect calculated to make Fanny truly happy. Before this engagement was at all thought of a plan had been arranged for next year which if all goes well with us is still to take place – It is that Fanny, & Sophy should accompany John to Cassel where he would have them with Charles for a fortnight. John would then proceed to Dresden & Munich, and his sisters would go to Detmold where Fanny would remain a month & Sophy after seeing the Rosens would go on to Madame Jacques at Hamburgh who has invited her to visit them. Whether they will meet & return together I do not yet know as Fanny will naturally be less independent than her sister. Many things may happen to change the plan, but if not they will probably have met Charles the end of May. They are very anxious to see a little of the Rhine before they go to Cassel but I doubt if this will be practicable. I wish that any fortunate chance might take you to that place (Cassel) about that time. Madm v. Malzburgh said that you had talked of paying a visit there.
Mr Horsley & all the rest of our party, including Mary & my dear little grandson are well. I wish I could say that of our friend Mr Klingemann but he has been suffering very much from a kind of bact br abcess which has caused a great debility. He is better but it prevented him from joining our Christmas party on the 25th which we all much regretted. Will you remember us most kindly to Mrs Mendelssohn & make our best comts to Mr David for whose loss of his little son we were truly sorry. Is it true that he is not coming to England? I hope not. Pray when you have leisure let us have the pleasure of hearing from you & with the most friendly regards from Mr Horsley and my family believe me dear Sir
Yrs most sincerely E. H. Horsley
 Dear Sir I must just add one or two lines to wish you & Mrs Mendelssohn & yr Son & Daughter (how imposing you grow) a very happy New Year. I wish extremely we might meet in the course of it, but I fear there is little or no hope of such good fortune. Why do you not write oftener to us? We are always so happy to hear any news of you & yours. I see Mamma has given you a bad account of Mr Klingemann, but I am very happy to tell you at a later date that he is decidedly much better, & we dined with him at Mary’s yesterday. There was a little party, & Benedict & Moscheles played two of yr beautiful Chorusses – the lamentation for Stephen, & O be gracious as duetts on the Organ They had a very nice effect. Both these pianists
 foreign trips – So are on the whole all yr old English friends & acquaintances – I of course are the gravest of the set. Can you fancy yr former impertinent Fräulein Fanny verlobt und ein bischen verlegen – I leave it to yr imagination – I say nothing of yr experience that way. Please give my love to your sweet wife of

Frances Arabella Horsley          

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We heard with great pleasure of the birth of your <persName xml:id="persName_53e04a8c-b2f8-4473-ac21-89c663c19d02">little girl<name key="PSN0113261" style="hidden" type="person">Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Marie Pauline Helene (1839-1897)</name></persName>. Is she like her <persName xml:id="persName_1a3f5925-df98-45a2-8d05-35d532328661">Mamma<name key="PSN0113252" style="hidden" type="person">Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Cécile Sophie Charlotte (1817-1853)</name></persName>, and does your <persName xml:id="persName_45e60fc6-61c9-47ba-a371-51d0e268b9bd">boy<name key="PSN0113251" style="hidden" type="person">Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Carl (seit ca. 1859: Karl) Wolfgang Paul (1838-1897)</name></persName> still ask you to play &amp; suceed in persuading you as we were told he always would do? – </p> <p>It is a great delight to me to be able to tell you how entirely satisfied we are with the course we have pursued with dear <persName xml:id="persName_03e81fd3-ff48-4481-8417-e80d42d0bbd9">Charles<name key="PSN0112102" style="hidden" type="person">Horsley, Charles Edward (1822-1876)</name></persName>.<note resp="FMBC" style="hidden" type="single_place_comment" xml:id="note_5966b868-ea7f-4875-8d49-5257925cb5d7" xml:lang="en">the course we have pursued with dear Charles – Mendelssohn hatte Horsleys den Violinisten, Komponisten und Musiktheoretiker Moritz Hauptmann als Lehrer für Charles Horsley empfohlen. Hauptmann war, ein Schüler von Louis Spohr und einer der renommiertesten Kompositionslehrer seiner Zeit. Anfang der 1840er-Jahre war Charles Horsley in Leipzig auch Schüler von Mendelssohn und konnte bis 1843 dort auf die Beratungen Mendelssohns zurückgreifen. Charles Horsley wurde wie sein Vater William Horsley Komponist.</note> He corresponds sometimes I believe with <persName xml:id="persName_44a7c97f-d25e-48b3-9ba3-6aaafba425f0">M<hi rend="superscript">r</hi> David<name key="PSN0110564" style="hidden" type="person">David, Ernst Victor Carl Ferdinand (1810-1873)</name></persName>, &amp; from him perhaps you have heard how happy he is. The letters we receive from <persName xml:id="persName_675428d5-54a1-43f1-a6f2-08116f2717d9">M<hi rend="superscript">r</hi> Hauptmann<name key="PSN0111769" style="hidden" type="person">Hauptmann, Carl Moritz (1792-1868)</name></persName> give him much credit for his industry, and the compositions he has sent home, prove to <persName xml:id="persName_f4a6a868-68c8-45ac-a6ca-f219e7f42d3e">M<hi rend="superscript">r</hi> Horsley<name key="PSN0112109" style="hidden" type="person">Horsley, William (1774-1858)</name></persName> that he is in the right path to make a sound musician. <persName xml:id="persName_44b7a433-c257-4561-bfd0-36977931c015">Charles<name key="PSN0112102" style="hidden" type="person">Horsley, Charles Edward (1822-1876)</name></persName> finds M<hi rend="superscript">r</hi> Hauptmann a kind friend as well as master, &amp; he likes <persName xml:id="persName_7f0f8539-c1a1-4dcc-9565-08b522dd66c8">Wiele<name key="PSN0119991" style="hidden" type="person">Wiele, Adolf (1794-1845)</name></persName> too very much. We saw the <persName xml:id="persName_1f58eed8-cba5-4a80-9b8b-859e07adea6c">Spohrs<name key="PSN0115030" style="hidden" type="person">Spohr, Familie von → Louis S.</name></persName> and Madame <persName xml:id="persName_922bb1ec-9bcc-419b-b77d-0f1509506cb1">von Malsburg<name key="PSN0113048" style="hidden" type="person">Malsburg-Elmarshausen, Caroline Luise Gräfin von der (1787-1863)</name></persName> at dinner here when they were in <placeName xml:id="placeName_b1324039-553b-4185-928c-a31c9b85d5c2">England<settlement key="STM0104824" style="hidden" type="area">England</settlement><country style="hidden">Großbritannien</country></placeName> and since their return they have all been much attentive to Charles. Madame <persName xml:id="persName_3e632801-0e4c-4763-aba2-5c0229b20b63">Malzburgh<name key="PSN0113048" style="hidden" type="person">Malsburg-Elmarshausen, Caroline Luise Gräfin von der (1787-1863)</name></persName><seg type="pagebreak"> |2|<pb n="2" type="pagebreak"></pb></seg> is particularly friendly to him &amp; he finds her home most agreeable. She appeared to me a most amiable woman &amp; I think she said she was acquainted with you. <persName xml:id="persName_247434a2-6d23-4c47-833d-589712c64dfb">Charles<name key="PSN0112102" style="hidden" type="person">Horsley, Charles Edward (1822-1876)</name></persName> is at this time spending his Christmas at <placeName xml:id="placeName_35c2ed3d-6e93-487b-a1e1-1e3f3afe2787">Detmold<settlement key="STM0100584" style="hidden" type="locality">Detmold</settlement><country style="hidden">Deutschland</country></placeName> with <persName xml:id="persName_3c982db4-c6bf-4f44-b591-495eb31c7417">M<hi rend="superscript">r</hi> Rosen<name key="PSN0114285" style="hidden" type="person">Rosen (bis 1817: Ballhorn), Gisbert August (1808-1876)</name></persName> which will make a pleasant change to him but he will be back in <placeName xml:id="placeName_ed65ee59-59b5-4e4a-b165-06b074528a87">Cassel<settlement key="STM0100115" style="hidden" type="locality">Kassel</settlement><country style="hidden">Deutschland</country></placeName> next week. He speaks in the warmest terms of the great kindness &amp; hospitality he receives from all your countrymen &amp; especially from the excellent family with whom he lives. The only drawback to Cassel in a Musical point of view, is the want of a good Pianoforte or Organ Master, &amp; still more the impossibility of getting practice on the latter instrument. <persName xml:id="persName_36a15fbb-9d28-4378-9384-38cc03ebe38a">M<hi rend="superscript">r</hi> Horsley<name key="PSN0112109" style="hidden" type="person">Horsley, William (1774-1858)</name></persName> deeply regrets this, as Charles has particular talent for it – however, I trust some arrangement may soon be made.</p> <p>I know you feel a true interest in our concerns &amp; I shall not therefore scruple to tell you a little more family news. Do you remember meeting in Rome<note resp="FMBC" style="hidden" type="single_place_comment" xml:id="note_041fbd51-ab93-44f2-843e-d2243d628abc" xml:lang="en">meeting in Rome – Mendelssohn befand sich seit dem 13. Mai 1830 auf einer Italienreise und hielt sich vom 1. November 1830 bis 18. Juni 1831 in Rom auf. </note> at <persName xml:id="persName_6c6c4258-6c74-4f41-8ae9-5d692e2e6c86">Horace Vernets<name key="PSN0115495" style="hidden" type="person">Vernet, Emile Jean Horace (1789-1863)</name></persName>, &amp; at the <persName xml:id="persName_88348ec5-834b-4582-8e14-31eb0b194c37">Bendemanns<name key="PSN0109804" style="hidden" type="person">Bendemann, Familie von → Eduard B. (-)</name></persName> a <persName xml:id="persName_0d8a2760-bcdc-4df1-8908-a73cdcea3807">D<hi rend="superscript">r</hi> Thompson<name key="PSN0115316" style="hidden" type="person">Thompson, Seth (1807-1861)</name></persName>, a young English physician? He returned to England about two years ago and established himself in <placeName xml:id="placeName_ba7ed29d-0823-4c89-b180-7deb886cfc3d">London<settlement key="STM0100126" style="hidden" type="locality">London</settlement><country style="hidden">Großbritannien</country></placeName> &amp; as the son of one of my oldest acquaintances, renewed his intimacy with us. This has led to an attachment between him &amp; <persName xml:id="persName_ade98012-515f-4958-ac98-6d32033032ae">Fanny<name key="PSN0112105" style="hidden" type="person">Horsley, Frances Arabella (Fanny) → Thompson (1815-1849)</name></persName>, and they are now engaged, though their marriage will probably not take place for two or three years to come. It is a connection particularly pleasing to us,<seg type="pagebreak"> |3|<pb n="3" type="pagebreak"></pb></seg> for we believe him to be a man in every respect calculated to make Fanny truly happy. Before this engagement was at all thought of a plan had been arranged for next year which if all goes well with us is still to take place – It is that <persName xml:id="persName_24a42921-7e8c-454d-885d-e82354356692">Fanny<name key="PSN0112105" style="hidden" type="person">Horsley, Frances Arabella (Fanny) → Thompson (1815-1849)</name></persName>, &amp; <persName xml:id="persName_cf2bfb37-6814-4b47-90bf-8bfb644fa46f">Sophy<name key="PSN0112108" style="hidden" type="person">Horsley, Sophia Hutchins (Sophy) (1819-1894)</name></persName> should accompany <persName xml:id="persName_436c12aa-3ff6-45df-99cb-77eec04e9cd6">John<name key="PSN0112106" style="hidden" type="person">Horsley, John Callcott (1817-1903)</name></persName> to <placeName xml:id="placeName_0582ee03-e44a-4789-b4b7-a8d22c4b0096">Cassel<settlement key="STM0100115" style="hidden" type="locality">Kassel</settlement><country style="hidden">Deutschland</country></placeName> where he would have them with <persName xml:id="persName_2871c95e-6c7d-49e3-a6bf-b7af9f98e031">Charles<name key="PSN0112102" style="hidden" type="person">Horsley, Charles Edward (1822-1876)</name></persName> for a fortnight. John would then proceed to <placeName xml:id="placeName_111d7a34-dea2-4a05-90a4-4bda40687f76">Dresden<settlement key="STM0100142" style="hidden" type="area">Dresden</settlement><country style="hidden">Deutschland</country></placeName> &amp; <placeName xml:id="placeName_db1656c1-acf8-40b6-b746-2336d15231e4">Munich<settlement key="STM0100169" style="hidden" type="locality">München</settlement><country style="hidden">Deutschland</country></placeName>, and his <persName xml:id="persName_42fce238-6f19-4669-8ff0-84a9453dabbe">sisters<name key="PSN0112105" style="hidden" type="person">Horsley, Frances Arabella (Fanny) → Thompson (1815-1849)</name><name key="PSN0112108" style="hidden" type="person">Horsley, Sophia Hutchins (Sophy) (1819-1894)</name></persName> would go to <placeName xml:id="placeName_83d56805-220b-4830-af28-a66b8fe16813">Detmold<settlement key="STM0100584" style="hidden" type="locality">Detmold</settlement><country style="hidden">Deutschland</country></placeName> where Fanny would remain a month &amp; Sophy after seeing the <persName xml:id="persName_7d1db2f4-1608-4f97-89e5-70cd3a3ce7ec">Rosens<name key="PSN0119647" style="hidden" type="person">Rosen, Familie von → Friedrich Ernst B.-R.</name></persName> would go on to <persName xml:id="persName_c97e014f-ed18-4207-bcc8-84735d48045c">Madame Jacques<name key="PSN0112197" style="hidden" type="person">Jacques, Madame</name></persName> at <placeName xml:id="placeName_292f41e6-cf76-4939-9bcf-8e689d5e8e19">Hamburgh<settlement key="STM0100127" style="hidden" type="locality">Hamburg</settlement><country style="hidden">Deutschland</country></placeName> who has invited her to visit them. Whether they will meet &amp; return together I do not yet know as <persName xml:id="persName_f004d80a-54aa-4e04-8c26-3a4fcb5889d7">Fanny<name key="PSN0112105" style="hidden" type="person">Horsley, Frances Arabella (Fanny) → Thompson (1815-1849)</name></persName> will naturally be less independent than her <unclear reason="seal_tear-off" resp="FMBC"><persName xml:id="persName_7424210b-a07a-4856-9aa9-402758014ced">sister<name key="PSN0112108" style="hidden" type="person">Horsley, Sophia Hutchins (Sophy) (1819-1894)</name></persName>.</unclear> Many things <hi n="1" rend="underline">may</hi> happen to change t<unclear reason="seal_tear-off" resp="FMBC">he plan,</unclear> but if not they will probably have <unclear reason="seal_tear-off" resp="FMBC">met <persName xml:id="persName_3cfb514e-5dfe-4e9a-a492-ab0ab1766227">Charles<name key="PSN0112102" style="hidden" type="person">Horsley, Charles Edward (1822-1876)</name></persName></unclear> the end of May. They are very anxious to see a little of the Rhine before they go to <placeName xml:id="placeName_2067a3db-2db1-4d1d-b9b8-aed7102526cf">Cassel<settlement key="STM0100115" style="hidden" type="locality">Kassel</settlement><country style="hidden">Deutschland</country></placeName> but I doubt if this will be practicable. I wish that any fortunate chance might take you to that place <add place="above">(Cassel)<name key="PSN0112103" resp="writers_hand" style="hidden">Horsley, Elizabeth Hutchins (1793-1875)</name></add> about that time. <persName xml:id="persName_fa88f424-c7a4-4625-b70f-2b611044cb2a">Mad<hi rend="superscript">m</hi> v. Malzburgh<name key="PSN0113048" style="hidden" type="person">Malsburg-Elmarshausen, Caroline Luise Gräfin von der (1787-1863)</name></persName> said that you had talked of paying a visit there. </p> <p><persName xml:id="persName_f5530306-019f-4ab6-84fa-3746ae7b3044">M<hi rend="superscript">r</hi> Horsley<name key="PSN0112109" style="hidden" type="person">Horsley, William (1774-1858)</name></persName> &amp; all the rest of our <persName xml:id="persName_32b09168-1efa-4248-868f-50f45a98a1a4">party<name key="PSN0112100" style="hidden" type="person">Horsley, Familie von → William H.</name></persName>, including <persName xml:id="persName_23eca5d4-6d32-420f-b123-af39160e0241">Mary<name key="PSN0112107" style="hidden" type="person">Horsley, Mary Elizabeth (1813-1881)</name></persName> &amp; my dear little grandson are well. I wish I could say that of our friend M<hi rend="superscript">r</hi> <persName xml:id="persName_6dc700fe-a609-4a6d-9f73-21903e7edfea">Klingemann<name key="PSN0112434" style="hidden" type="person">Klingemann, Ernst Georg Carl Christoph Konrad (1798-1862)</name></persName> but he has been suffering very much from a<seg type="pagebreak"> |4|<pb n="4" type="pagebreak"></pb></seg> kind of bact br abcess which has caused a great debility. He is better but it prevented him from joining our Christmas party on the <date cert="high" when="1839-12-25" xml:id="date_50416e44-537c-4786-9002-bc2d1faa0d12">25<hi rend="superscript">th</hi></date> which we all much regretted. Will you remember us most kindly to <persName xml:id="persName_0cab8d33-fa39-4bea-974f-823bbb5a527e">M<hi rend="superscript">rs</hi> Mendelssohn<name key="PSN0113252" style="hidden" type="person">Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Cécile Sophie Charlotte (1817-1853)</name></persName> &amp; make our best comts to M<hi rend="superscript">r</hi> <persName xml:id="persName_24c68a78-9a6f-4cf7-b245-58f5766fddc1">David<name key="PSN0110564" style="hidden" type="person">David, Ernst Victor Carl Ferdinand (1810-1873)</name></persName> for whose loss of his little son we were truly sorry. Is it true that he <unclear reason="covering" resp="FMBC">is</unclear> not coming to England? I hope not. Pray when you have leisure let us have the pleasure of hearing from you &amp; with the most friendly regards from M<hi rend="superscript">r</hi> Horsley and my family believe me dear Sir</p> <signed rend="right">Y<hi rend="superscript">rs</hi> most sincerely E. H. Horsley</signed> </div> <div n="2" type="act_of_writing" xml:id="div_0622ce37-4744-4eb3-acbc-1cb8eb86cc31"> <docAuthor key="PSN0112105" resp="author" style="hidden" xml:id="docAuthor_1bcb686e-af37-4258-8740-9ad19f1ecff1">Horsley, Frances Arabella (Fanny) → Thompson (1815-1849)</docAuthor> <docAuthor key="PSN0112105" resp="writer" style="hidden" xml:id="docAuthor_e3694c17-277c-48da-95fb-21f478869b27">Horsley, Frances Arabella (Fanny) → Thompson (1815-1849)</docAuthor> <p style="paragraph_without_indent"><seg type="pagebreak">|4|<pb n="4" type="pagebreak"></pb></seg> <seg type="salute">Dear Sir</seg> I must just add one or two lines to wish you &amp; <persName xml:id="persName_21dfa1fa-1b93-450c-a8ba-cd255721e71b">M<hi rend="superscript">rs</hi> Mendelssohn<name key="PSN0113252" style="hidden" type="person">Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Cécile Sophie Charlotte (1817-1853)</name></persName> &amp; <persName xml:id="persName_693393a6-da6e-4914-bfce-b8bfaed6579d">y<hi rend="superscript">r</hi> Son<name key="PSN0113251" style="hidden" type="person">Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Carl (seit ca. 1859: Karl) Wolfgang Paul (1838-1897)</name></persName> &amp; <persName xml:id="persName_15024d5a-9861-401b-aa3a-e3dfbd66df51">Daughter<name key="PSN0113261" style="hidden" type="person">Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Marie Pauline Helene (1839-1897)</name></persName> (how imposing you grow) a very happy New Year. I wish extremely we might meet in the course of it, but I fear there is little or no hope of such good fortune. Why do you not write oftener to us? We are always so happy to hear any news of you &amp; yours. I see <persName xml:id="persName_0ba36126-af54-4619-901a-6639146aa913">Mamma<name key="PSN0112103" style="hidden" type="person">Horsley, Elizabeth Hutchins (1793-1875)</name></persName> has given you a bad account of M<hi rend="superscript">r</hi> <persName xml:id="persName_87e0ba6b-c996-432a-bd29-a0e4eccb41d3">Klingemann<name key="PSN0112434" style="hidden" type="person">Klingemann, Ernst Georg Carl Christoph Konrad (1798-1862)</name></persName>, but I am very happy to tell you at a later date that he is decidedly much better, &amp; we dined with him at <persName xml:id="persName_15556bea-7adc-4c45-9858-de2cfb408a8c">Mary’s<name key="PSN0112107" style="hidden" type="person">Horsley, Mary Elizabeth (1813-1881)</name></persName> <date cert="high" when="1839-12-30" xml:id="date_f756a5e6-3ade-4c50-8d7d-e6501d631291">yesterday</date>. There was a little party, &amp; <persName xml:id="persName_493cfd70-0e73-4f42-95df-1424b2b335a5">Benedict<name key="PSN0109851" style="hidden" type="person">Benedict, (seit 1871) Sir Julius (Jules) (vorh. Isaac) (1804-1885)</name></persName> &amp; <persName xml:id="persName_74f90107-4f51-49d9-82f9-919ff96918ad">Moscheles<name key="PSN0113441" style="hidden" type="person">Moscheles, Ignaz (Isack) (1794-1870)</name></persName> played <add place="top">two of y<hi rend="superscript">r</hi> beautiful Chorusses – <title xml:id="title_3dad0588-306d-45b9-b307-585791b6f425">the lamentation for Stephen,<note resp="FMBC" style="hidden" type="single_place_comment" xml:id="note_d8988025-eef6-4b41-b3df-58154c9a74b2" xml:lang="en">the lamentation for Stephen – Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Saint Paul op.36, Part 1, No. 9, Chorus »And they stoned him«.</note> &amp; O be gracious<note resp="FMBC" style="hidden" type="single_place_comment" xml:id="note_cdea824a-64fc-47ad-9977-638dc179a504" xml:lang="en">O be gracious – Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Saint Paul op.36, Part III, No. 35, Chorus »O be gracious, ye immortals«.</note><list style="hidden" type="fmb_works_directory" xml:id="title_ftblttm1-cnon-qhl6-b0eu-nmylkggpgh3t"><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="PRC0100114" style="hidden">Paulus / St. Paul, Oratorium nach Worten der Heiligen Schrift für Solostimmen, gemischten Chor, Orchester und Orgel, [1832] bis 18. April 1836<idno type="MWV">A 14</idno><idno type="op">36</idno></name></title> as duetts on the Organ They had a very nice effect. Both these pianists <name key="PSN0112105" resp="writers_hand" style="hidden">Horsley, Frances Arabella (Fanny) → Thompson (1815-1849)</name><gap quantity="1" reason="covering" unit="lines"></gap></add></p> <p> <seg type="pagebreak">|1|<pb n="1" type="pagebreak"></pb></seg> <add place="top">foreign trips – So are on the whole all y<hi rend="superscript">r</hi> old English friends &amp; acquaintances – I of course are the gravest of the set. Can you fancy y<hi rend="superscript">r</hi> former impertinent Fräulein <persName xml:id="persName_3e9cd72d-2178-4b92-99cc-f551aca7a83e">Fanny<name key="PSN0112105" style="hidden" type="person">Horsley, Frances Arabella (Fanny) → Thompson (1815-1849)</name></persName> verlobt und ein bischen verlegen – I leave it to y<hi rend="superscript">r</hi> imagination – I say nothing of y<hi rend="superscript">r</hi> experience that way. Please give my love to your sweet <persName xml:id="persName_976dc3d5-051a-49d5-bd3f-be3e01542473">wife<name key="PSN0113252" style="hidden" type="person">Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Cécile Sophie Charlotte (1817-1853)</name></persName> of <gap quantity="1" reason="covering" unit="words"></gap><name key="PSN0112105" resp="writers_hand" style="hidden">Horsley, Frances Arabella (Fanny) → Thompson (1815-1849)</name></add> </p> <p> <seg type="pagebreak">|4|<pb n="4" type="pagebreak"></pb></seg> <add place="margin"> <gap quantity="2" reason="uncertain_reading" unit="lines"></gap> <name key="PSN0112105" resp="writers_hand" style="hidden">Horsley, Frances Arabella (Fanny) → Thompson (1815-1849)</name> </add> </p> <signed rend="right"> <add resp="FMBC" type="editors_addition">Frances Arabella Horsley</add> </signed> </div> </body> </text></TEI>