252 To Dr. Franz Brendel
Dear friend,
I expressly wish that Weissheimer should accompany the songs which Fraulein Genast will sing at the Euterpe soiree. I have especially commissioned him to make the motive of this wish of mine, if necessary, still clearer to you. With regard to the choice of songs you will easily come to an understanding with the amiable singer. But I, for my part, hold to the opinion that Hiller’s “Wallfahrt nach Kevlaar” is well suited to the programme.
The “Faust” Symphony must be written out quite fresh once more before I send it to Schuberth. By the 15th February he will receive the manuscript, together with a couple of lines for Dorffel, who is almost indispensable to me as the corrector of this work. I shall be over head and ears in work the next few weeks, in order to do all that is necessary before I start on my journey to Paris, which I shall probably do on the 20th February.
Best thanks for all the information in your last letter. Some things, indeed most things, are still going very badly—upon which we cannot and must not make ourselves any illusions;—but if we are proof against these things we shall come out of them.
Before and after Lowenberg (in the middle of February) I shall come and see you in Leipzig.
Meanwhile hearty greetings and thanks from your
F. L.
January 20th, 1861
You shall have the small sum for X. in the course of the week.