Volume II Part 19 (1/2)

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Unfortunately a host of correspondence prevents un and which is finished in my head The Italians say: Give time, time (”dar tempo al tempo”), which often provokes me utterly!--

First of all I shall set to work at the Weber and Schubert edition, which I hope to send you by the beginning of November

Please present my best thanks to Baron Reischach for his kind letter The business point of it (the Weber and Schubert edition) I herewith answer; that I shall redee of Noveive proof ofto Baron R myself

In sincere and friendly collaboratorshi+p, I am

Yours most sincerely,

F Liszt

Rome, September l0th, 1868

72 To E Repos

Dear Chevalier and Friend,

Your last letter interests me much, and I thank you very sincerely for the confidence you showbetter than to reply to it as you wish; but there is the difficulty Shall you reproach me with ”claudicare in duas partes”? No, I do not think you will, for I do not intend to have any hitch; it is siiven circumstances, I could exercise, is paralysed by other circued to explain various things to make you understand atory abstention on some points which touch me closely I prefer not to enter into these details in writing; perhaps we shall have an opportunity of speaking about the is my reply, reduced to the most concise terms:

I entirely approve of your two projects of the competition of sacred Music, and of the definitive, nor of the Church These two enterprises are opportune and desirable, and e All the same I am not in a position to serve you efficaciously utraque Therefore I ought not to be ency as unforeseen as decisive should supervene

You will have read in the Correspondance de Rome that the work of M Sre Alfieri has remained in suspense It is not a posthumous obstacle hich your edition would have to contend, but another, which ion

The ”Requiem” and the ”Offertoire of St Francis” shall be sent to you in a fortnight Before sending theh the copy, so as to save the engraver as many corrections as possible

I shall not leave Rome till Christmas; from January till the end of March I shall be at Weimar--

Pray accept, dear Chevalier and friend, the assurance of my affectionate devotion

F Liszt

September 19th, 1868

When will the 1st volume of your publication of the History of the Popes and Cardinals coed if you will send it me

73 To CF Kahnt, the Musical Publisher

[Facsimiles of this and No 99 appeared in the Neue Zeitschrift fur Musik, June 18th, 1890]

Dear Sir and Friend,

The delay in the receipt of your letter did not in any way lessen the very welcome news it contained, for which I thank you cordially Herewith also ard to the little red-colored Altenburg voluracious acceptance accorded to the dedication copy of the ”Elizabeth” I have already received a full report, which is altogether satisfactory The second copy de luxe please to keep for the present I should like to present it to our Grand Duke ad honore the third copy next Easter to the Exhibition of the Ger Press, I, as the author, consider both very appropriate and a pleasant piece of news