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88 continues floating above the chorale itself. That you remember in Berlin. But there is one row of keys that has nothing but reed-stops, and of these I use a soft oboe, a clarion, very light, a four-foot, and a viola. That brings out the chorale so quick and penetrating; it sounds like human voices, full of emotion, singing in the distance.

Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday, when you will be in possession of this letter, I shall be in the Theresien Park with eighty thousand others. Think of me there, and be good enough to be well, and remain so. .