↑ Hoffmann (1999) Kurt. "Brahms the Hamburg musician 1833–1863" Cambridge. Musgrave (editor) Michael The Cambridge Companion to Brahms Cambridge University Press, p. 9
↑ Gál writes that this letter was not in the published (1908) two volumes of Brahms-Joachim correspondence but was "brought to light by Arthur Holde in The Musical Quarterly (New York: July, 1959)." Avins, pp. 46-48, gives a translation of the whole letter, saying that most of it had been published, but not the just quoted passage, which she says is "restored here [with a little different translation] from the autograph."
