[The telegram, dated 21st April, is as follows: "Abbe Franz Liszt, Weimar. Universal wish that you should represent Hungary in International Jury of Paris Universal Exhibition. Jury begins on 1st June, lasts about 2 to 3 weeks. Please accept confidential mission, and wire reply immediately to Presidential Bureau, Handelsministerium, Budapest. Minister Trefort. Count Julius Szapary."
To this Liszt replied: "Most ready for service, Liszt begs for full particulars of his duties.">[
As soon as my duty in Paris as an Hungarian Member in the International Jury is fulfilled I shall return here. I have promised to be present at the Tonkunstler-Versammlung in Erfurt in the last week of June, and on the 8th July Weimar celebrates the jubilee of the 25th year of the accession of the Grand Duke.
.—. I shall be much pleased to make the acquaintance of Herr Adalbert Goldschmidt. I have several times hankered after the score or pianoforte score of his grand work "Die Todsunden" ["The Mortal Sins">[, which, so I am told, has not yet appeared in print. Is the composer staying long in Hanover? Probably I shall go to see Bulow and Bronsart there immediately after the Erfurt Tonkunstler-Versammlung, at the end of June.
You remember that I categorically dissuaded Fraulein Remmert from giving an orchestral concert in Vienna. In spite of that she had it announced and advertised,…and in the end there only came of it a vexatious mancando, perdendosi!
Ah! the artist-world is full of troubles! Thy faithful and heartfelt-devoted
F. Liszt
Weimar, April 26th, 1878
229. To Hofconcertmeister Edmund Singer
Dear Honored Friend,