Dearest friend,
I have just received the enclosed letter, programme, and newspaper from Prague. If you will write a few lines to Apt, you will please him very much. Also be kind enough to send a copy of your Nibelungen to Louis Köhler in Königsberg, care of Pfitzer and Heimann, music publishers. He deserves this attention from you, and I promised it to him during his stay here, when he cordially joined your banner. From Leipzig, after the performance of Tannhäuser, he wrote me a letter which I could sign myself, and you are sure to find in Köhler a very zealous, able, and honest champion of your cause in the press. A little book by him on the melody of speech will shortly appear. As a composer for the pianoforte he has done some excellent things. Several years ago an opera of his composition was produced at Brunswick. Köhler is about thirty-two years old and married.
Marx was here recently. We have become friends, and shall probably approach each other still more closely. His oratorio Moses was given fairly well under my direction. A little court concert was given the day before yesterday in honour of their Majesties, the King and Queen of Saxony. Further details I shall tell you when I see you. Unfortunately, I must doubt that the steps taken so far will lead to the desired result, but there is yet another hope before my departure, for which I must wait. The Hereditary Grand Duke will soon go to Dresden, and has promised me his intercession in this matter. In ten or twelve days I shall give you an exact plan of my journey.
Franz Liszt
Source: Project Gutenberg eBook #3835, Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt — Volume 1, No. 112