No. VIII.
Concert in aid of Beethoven's Monument at Drury Lane Theatre, July 19th, 1837.
IT was in the summer of the year 1837 that the citizens of Bonn, who had for the last two years been actively engaged in raising funds for the erection of a monument to Beethoven in his native city, addressed Lord Burghersh, through the Baron von Schlegel, president of their managing committee, in the following letter:—
My Lord,