[28] This Letter was written a short time before his betrothal.
[29] This project was never fulfilled, but the letter is inserted, as it proves the deep earnestness with which Mendelssohn treated such subjects.
[30] Mendelssohn’s marriage.
[31] “St. Paul” was performed for the first time in England at this Festival.
[32] A provincial mode of pronouncing ‘Birmingham.’
[33] See Letter of October 6th, 1835.
[34] It appeared afterwards under the title of “Serenade and Allegro Giojoso,” Op. 43.
[35] Hanover.
[36] A habit of Mendelssohn’s.
[37] Just before his Sister’s journey to Italy.