Permit me to hope, dear Countess, that you will not, under the pretext of "discretion," inflict upon me the immense punishment of seeing you less often this time than formerly, and that you will not retract any of your kindness, on which I place the greatest store.
A thousand and a thousand sincere and most respectfully devoted expressions of homage.
F. Liszt
140. To B. Bessel, Music Publisher in St. Petersburg
Horpacs (Chez le Comte Szechenyi), February 2nd, 1874.
Dear Sir,
Pray excuse me for being so late in thanking you,—you and all those who signed the telegram sent to Pest on the occasion of my jubilee fete. I am deeply touched with the noble sentiments it expresses with a chivalrous eloquence, and beg you to convey the tribute of my most sincere gratitude to Messrs. Balakireff, Borodine, Cui, Moussorsky, Rimski-Korsakoff, Scherbatcheff, and Stassoff.
You were kind enough, Sir, to let me see several of their works at Weimar; I appreciate and esteem them highly, and as far as depends on myself I will do all I can to make them known, and shall feel honored thus to respond to the sympathetic kindness which brave colleagues such as these accord to
Their very devoted
F. Liszt