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            The Close, Salisbury. Sepr 18, 1840. My dear Sir,
The veneration I feel for the Art which you have dignified by your compositions, and the respect I entertain for your personal character and genius, are the motives that prompt me to address you.
That the name of Mendelsshon, associated with the brightest recollections, should excite feelings of this nature will be a matter of surprise to kno one but yourself; and I beg you will consider this address if it be pleasing to you, as a reward of merit, and if otherwise, as one of the inconveniences of eminence.
The friendship which subsisted between Goethe and Yourself is well known to me, and I have the vanity to wish it understood that I enjoyed a similar privilege. A few of my works accidentally fell into the his hands his good opinion of them was manifested in letters addressed to me; and the friendship thus commenced was dissolved only by his death.
The accompanying Etchings are some of those which attracted his notice. I beg your acceptance of them as a memento of my regard.
My love for the Science of Music has led me to bring up one of my Sons to it as a profession. For some years he has been a student at the Royal Academy of Music in London, and the reports of the Professors speak highly of his proficiency. It is my most anxious desire to afford him the advantage of a Years study in Germany, and place him for that period under your directions, in the hope that he might be stimulated to act with so noble an example before his eyes.
 Believe me, My dear Sir, with every sentiment of respect and esteem, Very faithfully Yours,
D. C. Read.          

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