Walker-My_Musical_Ex.. - Walter Cosand

302 MY MUSICAL EXPERIENCES
long ! With the greatest respect, I am, and continue
to be,
' Yours very faithfully,
' Ad. Hensblt.'
Just a year later than this the editing of 'Five
Centuries of Musicians' Letters,' a work in which I
had been long engaged, was so far advanced that I
made no delay in asking Henselt to sanction some
letters of his being included in my collection. I sent
him a long and very characteristic letter which he
had written to a Fraulein Bonterwek, a friend of
early youth. Among various other matters, this letter
made mention of an offer made to him to undertake
the tuition of certain princesses. The three follow-
ing letters from Henselt are in reference to the
above :*
' HoNOtTEED Madam,
'Warmbrunn, July 30th, 1885.
'I have received your kind letter, and gladly
comply with your wishes. Yet, unless there are too
many difficulties in connection with doing so, don't
you think that for my own sake and that of the world
in general I ought to see the original of my own
letter ? For— you will be surprised—I have no recollection
of the offer referring to Berlin. Such an
* The letter was finally not included among 'Musicians'
Letters,' but I give it in the context of Henselt's letters to me.