Your Valkyrie has arrived, and I should like to reply to you by your Lohengrin chorus, sung by 1,000 voices, and repeated a thousandfold: "A wonder! a wonder!" Dearest Richard, you are truly a divine being, and it is my joy to feel after you and to follow you. More by word of mouth about your splendid, tremendous work, which I am reading in great inner excitement, to the horn rhythm, page 40, in D:
The scores of Berlioz I possess, but have lent them all to friends for the moment, and shall not be able to get them back for some weeks. About the middle of November I shall send you a parcel of them. You will find in them much to please you. The day after tomorrow I am going for a few days to Brunswick to conduct, on the 18th instant, one of the Symphony Concerts given by the orchestra there.
For the 21st, Sunday week, your Flying Dutchman is announced here, and at the beginning of November there will be a performance of Tannhäuser in honour of several Berlin people (Hulsen, Dorn, the operatic stage manager Formes, etc.), who have announced their visit here. I shall send you an account of it.
Go on with your Valkyrie, and permit me to adapt the proverb, Quand on prend du galon, on n'en saurait trop prendre, to your case in the following manner: Quand on fait du sublime on n'en saurait trop faire, surtout quand ce n'est qu'une question de nature et d'habitude!
Franz Liszt
Source: Project Gutenberg eBook #4234, Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt — Volume 2, No. 202