ABSTRACT
During his Christmas and New Year honeymoon at Dusseldorf Jaeger had taken the opportunity to lobby musical contacts on Coleridge-Taylor's behalf. Early in January, Taylor wrote to the Principal of the Croydon Conservatoire where he taught,
As I have so many commissions to complete within the next three years, my friends have strongly advised me to give up my teaching after this term, more especially as I am expecting to go to Dusseldorf at Easter for a time. So will you kindy arrange so that I may have no fresh pupils during this term ... these arrangements rest with Mr. Jaeger, who is now in Dusseldorf, and I cannot say for certain until I see him again.1
