Adieu, dear Karolus. I commend my box to you, and commend myself to you also
As your sincere friend,
F. Liszt
I need not say that of course you shall be repaid immediately for sending the box—only hurry on the sending.
Best regards to your wife.
Lowy will tell you what I wish in regard to the credit for my uncle Eduard.
53. To The Hochwohlgeboren Herr Baron von Dornis, Jena.
[Autograph in the possession of Herr C. Geibel, bookseller in
Leipzig.—The addressee was a sculptor.]
The confidence which you place in me, most esteemed Herr Baron, is naturally very flattering; but in order to meet it according to your wishes, I ought to have quite other means at my disposal than those I have.
It would of course be very gratifying to me to possess one of your valued works; yet I cannot help taking this opportunity of remarking that, in view of the far too many busts, medallions, statuettes, caricatures, medals, and portraits of all kinds existing of my humble self, I long ago resolved not to give occasion to any further multiplication of them.