Accept a seven-octaved chromatic scale of thanks for your kindness in sending your magnificent piano for the Grand-Ducal Hofgartnerei in Weimar. I hope you will on some occasion allow me to have the pleasure of convincing you, de visu et audaitu, how glorious the instrument looks and sounds here.
According to report we are shortly to see Tausig again in Weimar.
Tell him he may be sure of a hearty welcome from me.
With sincere esteem and grateful thanks I remain
Yours most sincerely
F. Liszt
Weimar, January 19th, 1869
P.S.—Enclosed are a few lines for Tausig, which kindly forward to him.
83. To Johann von Herbeck
Very Dear Friend,
Fraulein Ehnn's amiable readiness to undertake the part has greatly pleased me, and I beg you to convey my sincerest thanks to our "Elizabeth." The part will not cost her any immoderate effort; all possible alterations, pauses, dotted notes, ornamentations, shall be left ad libitum and entirely to the pleasure of the gracious singer. Do not write to me further on this subject, and endeavor merely to get Fraulein Ehnn to feel herself comfortably and pleasantly at home with my poor tone- melodies.