. Letters from Italy and Switzerland. ^—?: 1 f Peel- U lk=1-^ CONGRATULATION. 79. ^—- -^N. r- -jj —- i 1 . I !_ j^:j?z— ^ ~-f TT ^ zilizjä: 80 mendelssohns letters. Bunsen has just been here, and begs me to sendyou his best regards and congratulations. He is allkindness and courtesy towards me, and as you wishto know, I think I may say that we suit each otherremarkably well. The few words you wrote about P recalled bim to my memory in all his offen- siveness. The Abbate Santini ought to be anobscure man compared with him, for he neverattempts to magnify his own importance by imper
. Letters from Italy and Switzerland. ^—?: 1 f Peel- U lk=1-^ CONGRATULATION. 79. ^—- -^N. r- -jj —- i 1 . I !_ j^:j?z— ^ ~-f TT ^ zilizjä: 80 mendelssohns letters. Bunsen has just been here, and begs me to sendyou his best regards and congratulations. He is allkindness and courtesy towards me, and as you wishto know, I think I may say that we suit each otherremarkably well. The few words you wrote about P recalled bim to my memory in all his offen- siveness. The Abbate Santini ought to be anobscure man compared with him, for he neverattempts to magnify his own importance by imper- tinence or self-sufficiency. P is one of those collectors wlio make learning and libraries distaste-ful to others by their narrow-mindedness, whereasSantini is a genuine collector, in the best sense ofthe Word, caring little whether his collection be ofmuch value in a pecuniary point of view. He there-fore gives everything away indiscriminately, and isonly anxious to procure something new, for his chiefobject is the diffusion and universal knowledge ofancieut music. I have not see
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