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 THE REVISED ORATORIO.

��•' Leipzig, 17 February, 1847.

" My dear Sir, — I write these lines merely to thank you for yours dated February 9th, and to tell you that I agree with all the different remarks you therein make about the wording of the translation {including * commandments ' instead of ' commands,' &c.). And I hope you will have received the MS. of Part II. soon after you wrote, for I sent it off on the 2nd, with the exception of the Final Chorus, which I sent a few days later. I daresay everything will now be safely in your and Mr. Buxton's hands, and now I may begin to think of something else, which indeed I have not been able to do all the time since, with this Oratorio, nearly but not entirely finished, weighing on my mind.

" Always very truly yours,
 * ' Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy."

" Leipzig, February 25, 1847.
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