Letter of condolence on the death of Elisabeth (Lili) Wach : a digital edition Taylor edition Edited by Jennifer Patterson 2 pages of manuscript Taylor Institution Library, one of the Bodleian Libraries of the University of Oxford, 2019. XML files are available for download under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License . Images are available for download under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License . MS. Eng. c. 7963, fols. 90-91 https://medieval.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/catalog/manuscript_4226 https://ora.ox.ac.uk/ Taylor Editions: Manuscript tiff Folio

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Oxford Bodleian Library MS. Eng. c. 7963, fols. 90-91

Letter expressing condolences on behalf of the Mendelssohn Scholarships Foundation on the death of Elisabeth (Lili) Wach (1845-1910), daughter of the composer Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy. It was most likely intended for Adolf Wach (1843-1926), Lili's husband. The letter (written on an octavo-size bifolium with the Foundation's letterhead on the first leaf) mentions the occasion at which a reference to Frau Wach's death was made, namely the annual meeting of the Foundation's Committee that took place at the Royal Academy of Music on 4 November. The letter was written a day later by John Frederick Randall Stainer (1866-1939), Honorary Secretary of the Foundation and son of the composer Sir John Stainer.

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Written in Coventry, England in 1910

Letter of condolence on the death of Elisabeth (Lili) Wach . Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. Eng. c. 7963, fols. 90-91

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The Mendelssohn Scholarships Foundation. Instituted 1848.

1 New Court Woodside Laug Street Caterham London W.C.

5 Nov. 1910. Dear Sir

At the annual meeting of the Committee of the English Mendelssohn Scholarship, held at the Royal Academy of Music yesterday, sympathetic reference was made to the death of Frau Wach, the last surviving child of the great musician in whose memory this scholarship was founded, and I was directed to convey to you on behalf of the Committee an expression of their sincere condolence with you in your bereavement.

Believe me to be, Sir, Yours faithfully J.F.R. Stainer Hon. Sec.