So why bargain with them?
I have only fragmentarily sketched the Oratorio "Stanislaus," but wish to finish it, which will take at least a year.
My "Technical Piano-Exercises"—improperly advertised in the papers as "Pianoforte-School"—still require a few months for revision and arrangement with fingering, etc., but could come out next year if I have no hindrances.
Accept, my dear friend, my sincere and grateful attachment.
F. Liszt
Budapest, March 2nd, 1879
The middle of April I shall be in Weimar again
244. To Otto Lessmann
My dear Friend,
The enclosed programme proves to you that in spite of all fatigue my invalided piano-playing still contributes in a small degree to the relief of the sufferers of Szegedin.