But unfortunately my delicat health does not seem to agree.

At all events, if we are not to meet, I am glad to read in the papers of your artistical success in Amerika.
With my best wishes, I am, dear Sir, Yours very truly, EDVARD GRIEG.
[Illustration: FACSIMILE OF A LETTER FROM GRIEG TO MACDOWELL, ACCEPTING THE DEDICATION OF THE "NORSE" SONATA.

ONE OF GRIEG'S RARE ATTEMPTS AT ENGLISH COMPOSITION (SEE PAGE 73)] I may quote also, in this place, because of its unusual interest, a letter written (in German) by Grieg to Mrs.MacDowell when he learned of her husband's collapse:-- CHRISTIANIA, December 14, 1905.
DEAR MADAM: The news of MacDowell's serious illness has deeply affected me.
Permit me therefore to express to you my own and my wife's sincerest sympathy for you.

I am a great admirer of MacDowell's Muse, and would regard it as a severe blow if his best creative period should be so hastily broken off.

From all that I hear of your husband, his qualities as a man are as remarkable as his qualities as an artist.