I Am Writing A Few Lines Of Thanks By The Next Post To President
Herr Van Houten For The Distinction Shown To Me About The
Consideration Contained In This Letter, Which I Beg That You Will
Communicate To Him Verbally.
Awaiting further communications from the Committee, I remain,
dear Herr Capellmeister, with warm acknowledgements and high
esteem,
Yours very truly,
F. Liszt
171. To J. W. von Wasielewski in Dresden
Dear Friend,
Your letter reached me, after some delay, in Zurich, where I had
to keep my bed for several weeks - and today I write to you still
from my bed, and sulking because the geographical change which I
have made has not brought about any improvement in my
pathological condition (which, by the way, is quite without
danger).
How are you, dear Wasielewski? Have you settled yourself
pleasantly in Dresden? Are you working at music industriously and
methodically? - How far have you got in your biography of R.
Schumann? With regard to this work, the publication of which I am
awaiting with great interest, I am sorry to be unable to follow
the wish you so kindly express. Many letters addressed to me by
Schumann in earlier years are lost, and since my residence in
Weymar (from the year 1848) we certainly wrote to one another
from time to time, but only when theater or concert performances
of his works gave a sort of business occasion for it. Weymar does
not deserve the reproach of having kept itself too much in the
background in this respect.
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