233. To Vera Timanoff
Dear illustrious One,
I don't know how you will manage to adapt the "Sonnambula" to your little hands; they will have to trot about on the roofs in the style of somnambulists.
A revoir, wide awake, the day after tomorrow,—and a thousand affectionate and devoted regards.
F. Liszt
Thursday [Summer, 1878]
234. To Eduard von Liszt
Dearest Eduard,
I have very little in the way of musical matter to tell you about my stay in Paris from the 9th to the 18th June. I scarcely found time to hear the two last acts of Gounod's "Faust" at the Grand Opera. I was prevented from attending concerts by invitations and visits elsewhere. But I was able to follow attentively the plain- song during High Mass at Notre Dame on Trinity Sunday, together with a very intelligent friend, R. P. Joseph Mohr (Societate Jesu), a competent judge and promoter of Church music.
Hanslick—who showed himself friendly to me in Paris—will report in the Neue Freie Presse concerning the 13th class (musical instruments, etc.), of which he is vice-president.