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Updated: May 10, 2025
Blackguardism, obstinacy, and religiously nursed stupidity are here protected with iron walls; only a blackguard and a Jew can succeed here. Upon the whole, you were right in retiring to Weimar; as much solitude as possible, that alone can save us. The Hartels sent me the bill of exchange yesterday; many thanks. Cannot B. do the pianoforte arrangement?
The Hartels, to whom I made some days ago the offer of "Tristan" on certain conditions, I cannot ask for an advance of money, even in the favourable case of their accepting my offer, because I should not be able to send them the manuscript before the end of February.
support it with the Hartels. This I ask you fervently to do. An opportunity will be offered to you by the impending performance of "Lohengrin" at Leipzig. No one of course can compel the Hartels to undertake the purchase, even for a smaller sum; but if any one can, it is you, and therefore I had to apply to you. Perish all this Jewish business!
I do not deny it would be very desirable if you could soon make an arrangement with the Hartels about the "Nibelungen," for which object, in accordance with your kind offer, I gave you discretionary power.
It stands in the large echoing hall which serves me as a study. There "Tristan" is to be finished this winter. The first act, dearest friend, is quite complete; ask the Hartels to give you the proof-sheets of the full score, which is already engraved. In the completion of the second act, which I have only slightly sketched, I am continually interrupted by visits.
When I visit you in autumn, I shall probably be able to bring it with me; and if you do not dislike it, you must allow me to inscribe it with your name. With the Hartels little can be done. If the arrangement for four hands of the Faust overture has already been made, I do not advise you to propose some one else.
I wish that at least I had the satisfaction that some one knew how I appear to myself. Listen, my Franz; you must help me! I am in a bad, a very bad, way. Have you thought of Berlin again? Something must be done there if all is not to come to a stop. Before all, I must have money. The Hartels have been very liberal, but what is the good of hundreds where thousands are needed?
To this day it is a subject of regret to me not to have been able to introduce this fresh piece of work into the engraved score. The Hartels, never faltering in their assumption that Tristan might provide good food for the theatre, set their men busily to work upon engraving the score of the second act, while I was at work on the third.
They promised to let me know by telegram as soon as anything was settled; and if I can possibly manage, I shall again go to Leipzig, in order to give you an account of the performance. In the meanwhile I have handed the nine pieces from "Lohengrin," which H. had recently sent me, to the Hartels; and you will have a letter about them together with these lines, as Dr.
I need not tell you that if you come to terms with the Hartels other things ought to be LEFT ALONE ALTOGETHER, for I have made up my mind henceforth to preserve my independence as much as possible. You now have the complete synopsis of my situation; let me commend it to your well-tried sympathy. I hear with great delight that you are well again.
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