Author: MENDELSSOHN-BARTHOLDY (Felix), author. WALLACE (Grace Jane, Lady Wallace), translator:
Title: Letters from Italy and Switzerland. Translated from the German by Lady Wallace. Third Edition.
Description: London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green, 1864. As a translator, Wallace made musicians one of her specialties, and Mendelssohn loomed large among the musicians she translated. As the Oxford DNB notes, "For Longmans she translated the lives and letters of contemporary musicians, publishing the Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from 1833 to 1847, edited by Paul Mendelssohn Bartholdy and Dr Carl Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1863); Mendelssohn's Letters from Italy and Switzerland (1862); Beethoven's Letters (1790–1826) from the Collection of Dr Ludwig Nohl (1866); and The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1769-1791), edited by Nohl (1865). These works were widely reviewed and remained the standard English translations until Emily Anderson's new editions for Macmillan." The recipient of this copy is called "Charlotte St John" in Lady Wallace's warm inscription. This may be a playful nickname, however, as a character of that name features in the three-decker St. Martin's Eve by the popular novelist Mrs. Henry Wood, which was published earlier the same year, 1866, in which Wallace inscribed this volume.

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