Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from Italy and Switzerland

Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from Italy and Switzerland is by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, translated by Lady Wallace. A biographical notice by Julie de Marguerittes says that Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy was born at Hamburg, on the third of February, 1809.

One letter, dated May 24th, says that Goethe sent the writer a letter addressed to an artist, a painter, to deliver himself, and that Ottilie confided that it contains a commission to take the writer's portrait. A description of a church service says that during a silent prayer a death-like silence prevails in the whole church, and presently the Miserere commences, with a chord softly breathed by the voices, and gradually branching off into two choirs. A writer says that an adagio for a quintett must be written without delay, because the performers are calling loudly for one, and they are right. The writer wishes the reader could hear a rehearsal of his Midsummer Night's Dream at the Conservatoire, where they play it most beautifully.