Wagner's Letters

Franz Liszt to Richard Wagner

June 14, 1853 · Zurich

Overview

Wagner says he has little to write except that he longs for Liszt's arrival and has now adjusted his expectations, since a stay of only about ten days would not allow the planned trip to the Grisons. He assumes Liszt will not come before July, plans meanwhile to visit part of the R. family at Interlaken, and is pleased that Franz and Joachim also intend to come.

Letter

I have nothing to write to you, dearest, except that I await you longingly. You might come before the middle of July, seeing that you will not be able to give me more than ten days in all. This of course determines me not to expect that you should go to the watering place in the Grisons with me for a few days only. It would have been different if you could have stayed with me there for some length of time. I suppose you will not be here this month, and I may, without fear of missing you, go next week to Interlaken in the Oberland to visit part of the R. family. At the beginning of July I shall be back again, and expect you daily. That Franz and Joachim intend to come too is famous.

Franz Liszt

Source: Project Gutenberg eBook #3835, Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt — Volume 1, No. 113