Volume I Part 31 (1/2)

Good Lord, I know the thing

However, I was peculiarly pleased that you from the first looked upon this Berlin experiment just as I did, and that we quite understood each other I can quite iine how the Philistine must have shaken his head It was equally clear that you were unable to accept the proposal for the Konigsstadt Theatre with the Leipzig troupe, and I a It iross insult, for which one ive them, for they know not what they do”

Dearest friend, have you not yet had enough of Weirieve to see how you waste your strength there Was there any truth in the recent ruiven in?

But all this is idle talk My brain is a wilderness, and I thirst for a long, long sleep, to awake only when my arms are around you Write to me very precisely, also whether you are inclined, after a little stay at Zurich, to go with ht, after all, do you good, dearest friend; we shall there be five thousand feet high, and enjoy the ether with the mineral water, which is said to be of beneficial effect on the digestive organs

Think this over, consult your health and your circumstances, and let me know very soon what I may hope for

Farewell, best and dearest of friends Have my eternal thanks for your divine friendshi+p, and be assured of my steadfast and warmest love

Your

RICHARD W

ZURICH, May 30th, 1853

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DEAREST FRIEND,

I have just received the enclosed letter, prograue If you rite a few lines to Apt, you will please hih to send a copy of your ”Nibelungen” to Louis Kohler in Konigsberg (care of Pfitzer and Heimann, music-publishers) He deserves this attention fro his stay here, when he cordially joined your banner Fro, after the perforn myself, and you are sure to find in Kohler a very zealous, able, and honest champion of your cause in the press

A little book by him on the melody of speech will shortly appear

As a cos Several years ago an opera of his composition was produced at Brunswick Kohler is about thirty-two years old, and married

Marx was here recently We have become friends, and shall probably approach each other still iven fairly well under iven the day before yesterday in honour of their Majesties the King and Queen of Saxony Further details I shall tell you when I see you Unfortunately I must doubt that the steps taken so far will lead to the desired result, but there is yet another hope before my departure, for which I o to Dresden, and has promised me his intercession in this ive you an exact plan of my journey It is very possible and almost probable that Joachim and Robert Franz will accoo with you wherever you like, but I shall not be able to stay with you longer than ten days altogether Whether it will be at the beginning or the middle of July I cannot say for certain, because this journey depends on another s of your three perforrarin” and the overture of the ”Flying Dutch IDutchman”; and if you approve of it, it shall be published

I have been s These are the days of thunderstor you again Let us be faithful to one another, though the world go to ruin

F L

June 8th, 1853

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I have nothing to write to you, dearest, except that I await you longingly Youthat you will not be able to give me more than ten days in all This of course deter-place in the Grisons with me for a few days only It would have been different if you could have stayed with th of time I suppose you will not be here this o next week to Interlaken in the Oberland to visit part of the R faain, and expect you daily

That Franz and Joachim intend to come too is fahted to(Kohler) will be attended to