[56] See Mendelssohn’s Letters in 1831.
[57] Herr Souchay had asked Mendelssohn the meanings of some of his “Songs without Words.”
[58] Goethe also says, in the fourth part of ‘Dichtung und Wahrheit,’ “I have already but too plainly seen, that no one person understands another; that no one receives the same impression as another from the very same words.”
[59] The following Letter contains the result of the audience requested.
[60] See Letter to his Mother of the 3rd of September, 1842.
[61] See Letter to the King of the 28th of October, 1842.
[62] See Letter of 10th August, 1840.
[63] The birthday of Mendelssohn’s Father.
[64] After the death of his Mother.
[65] From his own Psalm, op. 42.