Mounsey - Bartolomew, Ann, S. Dvořák, Antonín

March 20 1884 My dear Sir I [?] Mr. Barringer at the Philharmonic Rehearsal yesterday, + he will tell you how greatly I was interested with your compositions at the performance. I have heard much good music in my life, having been an Associate of the Philharmonic Society nearly 50 years. Mendelssohn + Spohr I know well, + though their styles are much different, I delight in both. I sincerely hope that you have a long + healthful life before you to enable you to compose many more such excellent works as those I have just heard. I venture to offer you two or three of my little attempts, which I shall feel honored by your accepting. The six songs + Prelude + Signe are lately composed; as I am an old woman, (nearly 73 years of age) you must not be severe in your judgements upon them. Believe me to be Yours faithfully Ann Mounsey Bartholomew Herr Anton Dvorák