F. Liszt
Weimar, April 18th, 1872
My most affectionate thanks to Count Albert Apponyi for his kind remembrance, with the assurance of my cordial reciprocity.
P.S.—Augusz would give me great pleasure if he would send me a small provision of Hungarian tobacco (to smoke), for my old Weimar friend Grosse, the celebrated Trombonist.
Shall you not go to Bayreuth for the 22nd May? I shall invite you to do so.
116. To Johanna Wenzel
[The lady here addressed was a pupil of Liszt's at the time, and subsequently married Jules Zarembski, and is at present one of the teachers of the pianoforte at the Brussels Conservatoire.]
My Dear Young Lady,
In reply to your friendly lines I beg of you earnestly no longer to think of having the barbarous operation performed upon your fingers; rather all your life long play every octave and chord wrong than commit such a mad attack upon your hands.
With best thanks, I subscribe myself yours respectfully,