[Paris, May 28th, 1836—according to the stamp of the post office]
Dear and venerable Father,
I shall expect you. Whatever sorrow there is in the depth of my soul, it will be sweet and consoling to me to see you again.
You are so wonderfully good to me! and I should suffer so much by being so long away from you!—
Au revoir then, once more—in eight days at latest it will be, will it not? I do nothing else than keep expecting you.
Yours, with the deepest respect and most sincere devotion,
F. Liszt
10. To Mademoiselle Lydie Pavy, of La Glaciere, Lyons
[Autograph in the possession of M. Etienne Charavay in Paris.]
St. Gervais, August 22nd [1836].