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92 out in the winter. I also had my new symphony produced in England, and people were pleased with it. It will be printed after “The Hebrides,” which is now in hand. That is all very good, but I am thinking one’s real work should come first, and so I hope it will turn out. It is very wrong of me to write you a dull, impersonal, and entirely serious letter like this, but things have gone that way with me lately, and so I am becoming more serious myself,—Yours, .