AmirMortal

I will speak of my views, and of the life I purpose to myself. I am ambitious of doing the world some good: if I should be spared that may be the work of maturer years, in the interval I will assay to reach to as high a summit in music as the nerve bestowed upon me will suffer. I faint conceptions I have of music to come brings the blood frequently into my forehead. All I hope is that I may not lose all interest in human affairs, that the solitary indifference I feel for applause even from the finest spirits, will not blunt any acuteness of vision I may have. I do not think it will, I feel assured I should make from the mere yearning and fondness I have for the beautiful even if my night's labors should be burnt every morning and no ear ever hear upon them. But even now I am perhaps not speaking from myself; but from some character in whose soul I now live. I am sure however that this next sentence is from myself. I feel your anxiety, good opinion and friendliness in the highest degree, and am.