Volume I Part 39 (1/2)

Tords today in great haste I a burdened an overpatient friend like you with this Hartel affair

Pardonmore about this Jewish business I am, it is true, for the moment in an aard position, but you must notThe Princess has written to me about it

You must surprise me soon!

I spinout of myself For five years I had written no music; now I am in Nibelheim Mime made his complaint today Unfortunately I was last month taken ill with a feverish cold, which disabled me for ten days; otherwise the sketch would have been ready this year

At times also my somewhat cloudy situation disturbs me; there is at present an ominous calh for today I haveThere is so-like rapidity, the thought flashes through me that it would be better, after all, if I died But that has nothing to do withmusic Adieu Greet the Princess and the Child many times Soon more from

Your

WAGNER RICHARDTOL

ZURICH, December 17th, 1853

PS--You will have another letter very soon

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Many thanks, you dear bringer of Christmas cheer You come like a true saviour to me, and I have placed you on my work-table, as on an altar Thanks, a thousand thanks, to you for co I was very lonely

If I had a sweetheart, I think I should never write to her, and to you also Iexternal events The events I experience within me I can write of all the less, because I could not even tell them, so necessary is it to me to feel or--to act

I know that I shall have another letter fro to relate to me; so I a you thereby that I love you sincerely with all my heart

Your

R W

ZURICH, December 25th, 1853