The English music critic asks Sir George Smart for information about the Cramer Dinner, noting that he cannot depend upon the newspaper reports & should be glad to have an opportunity of mentioning it in print, as Mr. Cramer deserves a respectful notice & the occasion is an interesting one.

The event about which Chorley inquires must be the farewell concert and dinner held in May 1835 just prior to the retirement of German-born English pianist and composer Johann Baptist Cramer. As described in a biographical sketch published by the Musical Times in 1902, the pianist-composer performed that evening with some other notable talents--including Maria Malibran--and then attended a dinner in his honor with Sir George Smart presiding and Ignaz Moscheles, Henri Herz, and Thomas Attwood in attendance.