Comes over me at
the thought of the task I should like to fulfill, for which at
least ten years more of perfect health of body and mind will be
necessary to me.
Give my tender respects to Madame Liszt; you two form henceforth
my father's entire family; and believe in the lively and
unalterable friendship of
Your truly devoted,
F. Liszt
74. To Count Casimir Esterhazy
[Autograph (without address) in the possession of Herr Albert
Cohn, bookseller in Berlin. - The addressee was presumably Count
Esterhazy, whose guest Liszt was in Presburg in 1840.]
Let me thank you very sincerely for your kind remembrance, dear
friend, and let me also tell you how much I regret that my
journey to Hohlstein cannot come to pass during your short stay
there. But as by chance you already find yourself in Germany,
will you not push on some fine day as far as Weymar? - I should
have very great pleasure in seeing you there and in receiving
you - not in the manorial manner in which you received me at
Presburg, but very cordially and modestly as a conductor, kept by
I know not what strange chance of fate at a respectful distance
from storms and shipwrecks! -
For three weeks past a very sad circumstance has obliged me to
keep at Eilsen, where I had already passed some months of last
winter.
