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made enquiries concerning several Italian
composers of his acquaintance, and seem-
ed to interest himself very much about
the present state of music in Italy, as
well as the acquisitions I had made there
towards my future work.
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The reader of this journal will now be
enabled not only to form an idea of the
present state of music in the countries
through which I have passed, but like-
wise of the opportunities with which I
have been favoured of consulting the li-
braries and the learned, on whatever is
most disputable and curious in my pro-
jected history. I have mentioned some
of the materials which I acquired,
and to these may be added a great number,
which I collected during many years in
England, and near 400 volumes of scarce
books on the subject of music, which I
procured abroad. I have also settled a
correspondence in every great city that I
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