support it with the Hartels.
This I ask you fervently to do.
An opportunity will be offered to you by the impending performance of "Lohengrin" at Leipzig. No one of course can compel the Hartels to undertake the purchase, even for a smaller sum; but if any one can, it is you, and therefore I had to apply to you.
Perish all this Jewish business! Today has been a bad, musicless day; out of doors also it is grey and misty; let us hope tomorrow will be better.
Farewell, my most unique, my dearest friend.
Your
RICHARD W.
ZURICH, November 16th, 1853.
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