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The first performance of _Les Huguenots_ took place on Thursday, Feb. 26, the second on Sunday, March 1. A third, announced for Friday, March 6, was prevented by a most unfortunate accident; Mdlle. Lind sprained her foot on the Thursday so seriously that for three weeks she was confined to the sofa.
The kindest sympathy was shown to the sufferer after this painful misadventure; and Mendelssohn, who had been informed of the accident, endeavoured, on March 18, to cheer her loneliness with a long and delightful letter, half grave, half gay, in which the serious and the playful were intermingled with an easy grace in which few adepts in the art of letter-writing have ever been able to rival him.