121. To Eduard von Liszt
Dearest Eduard,
Long since you ought to have heard from me…However, I have not been altogether idle, and during the last weeks have been busy blackening some sheets of music paper which you shall see in print and hear me play. Bosendorfer heard some of it last night, and will bring you word about it to Pest. Be good enough to pay Zumbusch a visit, and beg him to have my bust done in good marble, and to have it finished and ready by the 2nd April (Franciscus di Paula). I intend to spend this name-day of mine with you quietly, [This was an established custom of Liszt's for many years, and one to which—even after his cousin's death—he adhered, and spent the day with the family up to the time of his death.] and to take the bust to Bosendorfer "in persona."
I am told that the Gran Mass is to be performed on Easter Sunday in Pressburg. If so, we will go there together to hear it, with your wife, Marie [Eduard von Liszt's daughter, now Baroness Saar in Vienna.] and Franz.
As to the Bayreuth affair, I have already told you what my wish and will is. It must remain thus. .—.
Probably Cosima will be going to Vienna in February.
God's blessing abide with you and yours. Thine, with all my heart,
F. Liszt
Pest, January 13th, 1873
122. To Dr. Emil Thewrewk von Ponor, Professor at the University of Budapest.