I do not know whether I talk too much; but I certainly write too little to those who remain constantly in possession of my sincere gratitude. I crave your kindly indulgence therefore for my involuntary shortcomings.
Through your nephew Imre [Baron Augusz, son of Anton Augusz. He died at an early age.] I hear that his mother, Baroness von Augusz, has been so good as to look at my new dwelling in the Academy of Music, and that the arrangement of it, as yet unknown to me, meets her approval. The solicitude you have shown, Madame, in this matter—as well as in other similar ones in the Palatingasse and Fischmarkt during the last 8 years—I beg to acknowledge with warmest thanks. It never enters my head to make exaggerated pretensions with regard to my residential requirements. Decency without display continues to be the right thing for me. I only have one wish at all times: never to be a trouble to my friends anywhere.
It will be agreeable to me if Fanny feels disposed to undertake my modest household service again this winter. She adapts herself well to it with her pretty smiling face.
Pray accept, dear Frau von Fabry, the renewed expression of my old devoted affection.
F. Liszt.
Villa d'Este, Tivoli, November 1st, 1880
On the 15th January I shall again arrive at Budapest.
268. To Frau Anna Benfey-Schuppe
[Autograph belonging to Herr Fritz Donebauer at Prague.—The addressee is an authoress residing at Weimar.]
Dear Madam,