Volume I Part 33 (1/2)

When I go to Carlsruhe, I shall again visit Moritz at Wiesbaden

Your letter to C A reachedearly; excellent and worthy of you! This afternoon I drive to Ettersburg to pay entleman, and shall hand him your letter at once

The Princess of Prussia is here with her mother, and will probably remain till the end of July Whether the etiquette of courtwill permit me to have a talk with her I do not know

Be happy in the Grisons, you Godlike en,” let me be with you, and keep me within you even as you have received me--in truth and love

Your

F L

WEYMAR, July 17th, 1853

Enclosed I send you a letter from Kohler, which you may on occasion return to me Have you read his paht write a feords to hiet the Carlsruhe scores, and, if possible, the parts

Address always Weymar

[ENCLOSURE]

HIGHLY ESTEEMED DR LISZT,

This isin it, lest I should have theyour censure

I have sent the book to Wagner, and it ht displease hiiven en” I owe this to you; you werethe book At first it was strange to e does attract us Unconsciously, however, I lost myself in it, and now feel quite at home in it, with the true joy of Valhall The work strikes me with a pohich is of a peculiar kind, and I do not care to vexif they do not occur of theh, no doubt, the after-effect of the book will lead to reflections I do not think that for centuries so truly sublime a piece of poetry has been created, so powerful, so full of simplicity--simple in diction--there is reat, even in an optic sense; the fore, but endoith the ideal beauty of force; I hear their voices resound afar, and when they e is in itself true music, and therefore cannot be ”set to music” I have a distinct idea of the actual representation of this work and of its perfection; and I discover a kind of speech rouped verses of Wagner, such as I iined as the ultimate ideal of dramatic tone-speech when I wrote my book; perhaps you hold a siner To him I should like to write every day, if only two lines; but Heaven preserve so ner would only let en,” my mind would be at rest

Wotan is sublime, like a statue in bronze, and yet so humanly conceivable at the same time The close of the first act of the ”Valkyrie” is overpowering Oh! how I felt with Siegmund When I read, h point upon a large, neorld

Let ner's intention; I shall be eternally grateful to you I shall always think with delight of uerreotyped on ars when I want to reward ement of the Ninth Syreatest enthusiasm; it is a marvelous work, which I shall shortly notice in print

How about new editions? Let me write about them all!

In the feuilleton of our newspaper here I wrote three articles about you and Wagner; now, after all, cos which I had built up He is a terribly confused spirit, and the humour of it is that he thinks everybody else confused

Is Raff working busily at his Sa of him Remember me to hi for your forbearance with

Your wholly devoted

LOUIS KOHLER