[3] Chopin and Liszt once spent a whole night hunting for him in the fields.
[4] Of him more later on.
[5] Between these two letters Berlioz had a meeting with Miss Smithson, who told him frankly that his pretensions were impossible.
[6] Le Correspondant.
[7] Moore’s “Irish Melodies.”
[8] In his letters he says that Mademoiselle Moke was present with her mother.—Ed.
[9] A play upon his red hair.
[10] Mendelssohn’s letter of 29th March 1831 gives a very severe description of Berlioz, under the initial “Y,” showing how utterly out of sympathy the two young men were, and how incapable at that time Mendelssohn was of reciprocating Berlioz’s whole-hearted appreciation.
Later on, when they met in Leipzig, the situation improved.
[11] It was Diano Marina, near Oneglia.