Weimar, September 8th, 1881
Dear Friend,
I have still to undergo a supplementary treatment of baths and sweatings. [In consequence of a fall, Liszt had been seriously ill all summer.] This I shall do at Weimar. From the 21st to the 30th September I shall be at Bayreuth, and from October till New Year in Rome.
I am sending off the duet version of my Symphonic Poem "From cradle to grave" to Bock to day. .—. I shall send him the score from Bayreuth, because just now I am not able to work more than a few hours a day continuously.
There is so much admirable music written that one is ashamed to write any more. With me it only happens in cases of urgency and from inner necessity.
Thanking you heartily,
Yours ever,
F. Liszt
281. To Francois Auguste Gevaert, Director of the Brussels Conservatoire
[Celebrated Belgian music teacher and composer, born 1828]