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 THE ENGLISH TRANSLATION.

��am sure I will not let it stand. Of course the whoL beginning of No. 41, ' Aber einer erscheint, &c. ; der wird des Herrn Namen,' must stand and not be omitted; merely from the Alia breve, and from the ist introduction of the words * Er wird offnen,' is to be left out.*

" Pray excuse all this trouble ; and let me thank you in person for all the hard work you have had on my account.


 * ' Always very truly yours,

" Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy."

��[Mendelssohn to Bartholomew.]

[Written in English.]

" Leipzig, August 10, 1846.

" My dear Sir, — In the letter I wrote to you yesterday I foro^ot to mention the words of the song which I bring with me (the No. ^y which is still

rejected almost at the eleventh hour, was a somewhat extended movement in D, eighty-si.\ bars long. It started with the following, subject in the soprano :
 * This section of the chorus (No. 41), which Mendelssohn

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