Volume II Part 27 (1/2)
Your
RICHARD
250
January 1st, 1858
I want to consecrate reeting to you,you and enjoying you to my heart's content The worst loss of the past year has been that of the visit you had proht that could be vouchsafed to me, it would be to see you suddenly in enius? If I were only free you would experience such a surprise fro coradual way, and, after all, I have to share it with a host of Zurich professors You perceive I am not very many-sided My ideas h the objects it coe as the world to st those objects) If I have a grudge against your eternal and ements, you will understand my very special reason, viz, that they take you away froether with you is everything to me; it is my fountain, all the rest is but overflow When I sit down to write to you I do not knohat to say Nothing occurs to me but what I cannot write To speak to you of ”business” is altogether an aboe, while business narrows it in the h when, as formerly was too often the case, I am compelled to trouble you with my private sorrows Especially today these must be far from me, for the first stroke ofbut a pure, sonorous greeting to you I want to tell you, however, that yesterday, at last, I finished the first act of ”Tristan” I shall work at ”Tristan” assiduously; at the beginning of the next winter season I want to produce it so is, at present, confined to Calderon, ill at last induce me to learn a little Spanish Heaven forbid that in that case I should reeli The necessary cache-nez I possess My wife has given ether with a splendid carpet with swans on it, a la Lohengrin I heard recently of your Dresden life with Gutzkow, Auerbach, etc, etc Oh, you tre Perhaps you, too, will appear to h at you I have struck up a friendshi+p with the X's for the sole purpose of not being again left out of their invitation when the ti done so, and any amount of enthusiasm cannot make me appreciate this abo hness, in order to be quite a stupid to the dear Child? I cannot reive s in His world, and where God forgives, the Child should not be sulky You ought to be angry least of all, for you must know that I love no one as I love you, and that it was you who taught ive a good scolding one of these days to Professor M, or Professor V, etc, for it is in reality the fault of this type of hted above everything at your being well again, although I find it difficult to believe that there are ood health, and still have to thank Vaillant for it I wish I could reward him
Let me hear fro with a will, and tell the dear ladies that they are to hold s of a world on you, my Franz Farewell
Your R W
251
DEAREST FRANZ,
I intend to go to Paris in order to look after my interests there If it is too far for you, or if you do not like to co, I should like to consult you about my whole position, in order to have the consent of s For the present you will see, at least, that I a in Everything leaves me in the lurch I have had to send a power of attorney to Haslinger in Vienna, in order to coer there to pay me some considerable sums which he owes me, but I cannot with any certainty reckon upon success within a iven ”Tannhauser” exactly once during last quarter, and for the first time I received very little money, while for the winter The Hartels, to whoo the offer of ”Tristan” on certain conditions, I cannot ask for an advance ofmy offer, because I should not be able to send them thee of consuly expects funds from me toabsolutely without resources, I a to delay my necessary journey, which I could not undertake, even if I had only the actual travelling money, because I must not leave my ithout means for ever so short a time I shall therefore require at least one thousand francs in order to get away By Easter at the latest, and perhaps sooner, I shall ask Hartel for a considerable sum on account of the first act, and promise faithfully to return the et the money for me Send me the money, and let me know at the sa or in Paris
Farewell! Au revoir very soon
Your
RICHARD
252
DEAREST RICHARD,
At Weymar I cannot raise ten thalers just at present, but I have written at once to Vienna, and in a week's time the sum of a thousand francs, named by you, will be handed to you by my son- in-law, M Emile Ollivier (avocat au barreau et depute de la ville de Paris) Call on him at the end of next week He lives rue St Guillau St Germain
If it is of use to you to have so for one day, although I find it difficult to leave Weymar at the present moment
The Princess has had an excellent idea, of which you will hearShe rite to you as soon as she has had an ansith regard to it
God be with you!
F L