[Lydia] Maria [Child] ALS to [Ellis Gray Loring], June 7, [1849 or 1850]

me away from the Germania Band
when they play Mendelssohn's Mid-
-summer's Night Dream. I shocked
Mr. Walker's Christian piety very much,
by saying if Mendelssohn were a Jew,
I hoped I should get into the Jew's
Quarter in heaven. Don't tell Sally
Searle. Who is the author
of "the Hebrew Commonwealth," of which
you spoke to me? The librarians here
continually meet me with that question
when I ask for the work. If you will
send the title on a slip of paper, I
will freely absolve you from writing
another word, by way of letter.

I wish I could have a good long
talk with you all; and I must, some
time. Always I have you in the
warmest corner of my heart.

With love and blessing for dear Louise
and Anna,

Ever affectionately Yrs,

Maria.