MENDELSSOHN BARTHOLDY, Felix (1809-1847)
Autograph letter signed ('Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy') to Mrs Taylor, 103 Portland Street, [London], 29 April [1832].
In English, one page, 185 x 113mm, integral address leaf. Provenance: Sotheby's, 28 May 1986, lot 478; bought by Maggs Bros – Sotheby's, 31 March 1998, lot 296.
'I shall not like to behave any longer as an invalid'. With characteristic grace, Mendelssohn accepts an invitation for the following Friday: 'I shall be most happy to be introduced by you to Mrs. Worsley, as I doubted whether I could take the liberty of calling upon her without knowing her husband. I am not yet allowed to go out late in the evening & missed therefore the pleasure of calling upon Mr. Taylor ... but yet I hope to see him before Friday as I feel so well, that I shall not like to behave any longer as an invalid'.
The Taylor family were amongst Mendelssohn's closest English friends: he had stayed at their house in Wales in 1829, which he described to his sisters as 'one of those times which will never vanish from my mind', and he attributed to the Taylor daughters the inspiration for his 3 Fantasias or Caprices, op.16.
MENDELSSOHN BARTHOLDY, Felix (1809-1847)
Autograph letter signed ('Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy') to Mrs Taylor, 103 Portland Street, [London], 29 April [1832].
In English, one page, 185 x 113mm, integral address leaf. Provenance: Sotheby's, 28 May 1986, lot 478; bought by Maggs Bros – Sotheby's, 31 March 1998, lot 296.
'I shall not like to behave any longer as an invalid'. With characteristic grace, Mendelssohn accepts an invitation for the following Friday: 'I shall be most happy to be introduced by you to Mrs. Worsley, as I doubted whether I could take the liberty of calling upon her without knowing her husband. I am not yet allowed to go out late in the evening & missed therefore the pleasure of calling upon Mr. Taylor ... but yet I hope to see him before Friday as I feel so well, that I shall not like to behave any longer as an invalid'.
The Taylor family were amongst Mendelssohn's closest English friends: he had stayed at their house in Wales in 1829, which he described to his sisters as 'one of those times which will never vanish from my mind', and he attributed to the Taylor daughters the inspiration for his 3 Fantasias or Caprices, op.16.
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