Volume I Part 32 (1/2)

DEAREST FRIEND,

I have just returned from a trip, and find your letter Thank God, I have notso soon Saturday, July 2nd, in the , I shall await you at the ht stay with me, but I am afraid you would not be comfortable, especially if you come with Joachim and Franz All this we shall settle at once at the office There is a good hotel, Hotel Baur I shall let Kirchner and Eschlad I am Not another word by letter!

Au revoir

Your

RICHARD WAGNER

Could you let ?

We have beautiful weather

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You see, dear friend, that I a; and unless official impediments delay me one day, I start the day after tomorrow- Friday, July 1st--by the afternoon train for Basle, and arrive at Zurich by theAt the latest, I shall be there on Sunday at the same hour Joachim I expect here; Franz, I am sorry to say, will not be able to come till later on

Your

FRANZ LISZT

CARLSRUHE, June 29th

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FRANKFORT, Tuesday, July 12th, 1853, 6 pm

UNIQUE FRIEND,

The Musical Festival at Carlsruhe will take place on September 20th, and I write you these few lines in haste to ask you to send rin” at Weylad if you could lend me for six weeks your Zurich parts of the overture to ”Tannhauser”

and the pieces frorin” for use at the Carlsruhe festival; send theht to Devrient As the Hartels have not printed the parts, it will not injure their interests; and we shall at least be sure that the parts are correctly copied, as you have already used the the parts of the ”Tannhauser” overture with me At the two concerts of the Carlsruhe festival the orchestras and artists of the Darmstadt, Mannheim, and Carlsruhe theatres will co-operate

As the perfor of the parts will be quite sufficient, for the house does not hold more than fourteen or fifteen hundred people, and an orchestra of a hundred and ninety and a chorus of soood effect As soon as the programme is settled I shall send it to you; for the present I tell you only that the ”Tannhauser” overture will rin” pieces the close of the second In addition to this, there will be two pieces by Berlioz, the finale of Mendelssohn's ”Loreley,” the Ninth Symphony, etc Frau Heim will, I hope, on this occasion be the reporter for Zurich, and I shall do s this evening at a concert in the theatre for the benefit of a local actress ”Tannhauser” will not be given tomorrow After the concert I shall see Schmidt, and shall inquire as to particularsIn case J is still here tomorrow, I shall pay my most humble respects to her She appeared first as Ro Fides for the benefit of the Pension Fund With E Devrient I spent a few hours yesterday at Badenweiler He is going to visit you at Zurich, but can make no certain plans for the present, as he expects the Prince Regent at Badenweiler His daughter suffers a great deal, and his wife also appeared to me in very weak health Frau Meyerbeer also I met at Badenweiler With Schindelraph early toiven on Thursday, I shall run over to see it, and return hoot into difficulties with the police at Carlsruhe, because its species and colour are considered specially suspicious, being accounted red, although grey I was accidentally advised of this; nevertheless I have got on well so far, and shall always maintain that the hat is well-conditioned and loyal, because you have given it to me

Apropos, neither of the two persons to whom I have hitherto talked about it was inclined to believe in your wholly unpolitical position andIt will certainly take some time before a more correct opinion of your circumstances and your whole individuality is arrived at

My best compliments to your wife, andet either es to Frau kumner and her sister To our Grutly brother and his wife say all the friendly and true things which I feel for theood ”shake-hand” (translated into ht, sunny days for rant that we may soon be able to repeat them

Your

DOPPEL PEPS, alias ”Double Extract de Peps,” or ”Double Stout Peps con doppio movimento sempre crescendo al fffff,” which latter we shall live to witness at the perforen”