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[Autograph in the possession of Herr Otto Lessmann at Charlottenburg.--The addressee was an intimate friend of Wagner's ("Letters to Uhlig, Fischer, and Heine"--Leipzig, Breitkopf and Hartel, 1889).]
Dear Sir,
By today's post I have sent you a minutely corrected copy of the score of the "Flying Dutchman."
As this copy was my own property (Wagner had left it for me after his stay here in 1869) I could not suppose that Uhlig could expect it back from me as a theater score. The last letter from Wagner to me has made the matter clear, and I place this score with pleasure at his further disposal. I have replied to Wagner direct and fully; he is therefore aware that I have sent you my copy. [For fuller particulars about this see the "Wagner-Liszt Correspondence," vol. i., pp. 207-9.]
Allow me to beg you kindly to make my excuses to Herr Heine [Ferdinand Heine, Court actor and costumier, famous through Wagner's letters to him.] that I do not answer his letter just now. His indulgent opinion of our Lohengrtn performance is very flattering to me; I hope that by degrees we shall deserve still better the praise which comes to us from many sides: meanwhile, as the occasion of his writing was just the matter of the "Hollander" score, and as this is now quite satisfactorily settled, it does not require any further writing.
With best regards, yours truly,
F. Liszt
Weymar, January 13th, 1853
Is Tichatschek coming to our "Lohengrin" performance in February? Please beg him to try to do so. On Weymar's side nothing will be neglected, and it will be a real joy to us both.
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