THE MENDELSSOHN FAMILY 1729-1847 FEOM LETTEES AND JOURNALS BY
SEBASTIAN HENSEL WITH EIGHT PORTRAITS FROM DRAWINGS BY WILHELM
HENSEL SECOND REVISED EDITION TRANSLATED BY CARL KLINGEMANN AND AN
AMERICAN COLLABORATOR WITH A NOTICE BY GEORGE GROVE, ESQ., D. O. L.
VOL. II. NEW YOEK HABPEB BROTHERS, FRANKLIN SQUARE 1882 Entered
according to Act of Congress, in the year 1881, by HAEPER BROTHERS,
In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. All
rights reserved. CONTENTS THE SECOND VOLUME. PAGE 1836-1839 1 ITALY
57 NAPLES TO BERLIN 122 1841. AT HOME AGAIN 158 THE YEARS 1842 AND
1843 177 LETTERS PROM HOME AND ABROAD 187 MEETING-IN ITALY 310
CONCLUSION 324 INDEX 347 mi ow posue 6860G68 VOL. II. 1835-1847,
Ich nenne den den Gliicklichsten, Der olino Kummer dcr Welt
Erliabenhoit geschaut Und eilig dann zuriickgekehrt, von wo er kam
Die Sonne, die alien leuchtet, Sterne, Feuer, Mecr, Der Wolken Zug
und wenn du liunderfc Jalire lebst, Nichts andres siehst du, als in
wenigen Jahren auch, ErhaVneres abcr schaut cles Mensclien Auge
nie. MEN ANDES, . . . Him do I call the happiest, Who free from
sorrow saw the height and depth of life, And then with speed went
home to whence he came. The sun and his great light, stars, fire
and sea And clouds and if thou live a hundred years, No more canst
thou behold than in a few And nothing more sublime is seen by
mortal eye They whom the gods love die young 4886-4889. THE winter
of 1835 passed drearily everybody had to strive to get accustomed
to the great loss. Felix persisted in a solitary, almost desperate
mood, and Fanny was firmly convinced that he must begin quite a new
life, and marry. She talked about it to him, and was overjoyed by
his assurancethat he would look about him on the Rhine next summer,
which proved that he had a certain object in view. What else could
have induced him to think of the Ehine especially We shall see how
successfully he sought and found. A letter from Fanny to
Klingemann, dated January 31, 1836, may find its place here I will
begin this letter to you only to make a beginning-, and will
continue and send it off when I can. The correspond ence with you
is so pleasant that it is the only one I keep up, and will not
allow to be interrupted so far as I am concerned. For in
correspondence, as in actual life, I like an intercourse where one
may be maussade or lazy now and then, without the other taking
offence or seeing an intention. One must be allowed even to write a
letter containing nothing-but How do you do Answer soon. 5 And you
must allow me to do so this time for I really have not much more to
say to-day. February 4. What you say about a new year and epochs in
life is very true. We have now gone through one of these
experiences, and, I am sure, the end of January has shown us quite
a different face from the end of the year. One involun tarily feels
rid of a burden in for ever laying by, so to speak, the name of a
year, which contains so many changes. It may be prejudice or
imagination, but if with the years we would YOL. II. B 2
1836-1839-also get rid of imagination we should be parting with too
much that is true and real We have returned to music again by
taking up St. Paul of which Felix left some pieces here at
Christmas, which we sang yesterday with a few friends, in honour of
his birthday. We are much delighted with it, and like to think of
fathers enjoyment of this music, for which he wasindebted to the
Woringen party, who sang most excellently several of the pieces,
after we unfortunately had left Diisseldorf. Father took immense
pleasure in it, and especially thought the sermon of St. Stephen
and the following pieces perfectly original...
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