For the moment I am plagued with all kinds of business matters.  Excuse me, dearest Richard, for writing you so little, and vouchsafe soon the great joy of your presence to

Your sincerely devoted

F. Liszt.

P.S.—­My daughter writes to say that she will arrive here with Ollivier on August 3rd.  The performance of the “Prometheus” and “Faust” symphonies will be on August 6th.

END OF VOL II.

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This volume of “Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt” is the second volume of a 2-volume set.  The letters were translated into English by Francis Hueffer.  Each page was cut out of the book with an X-acto knife and fed into an Automatic Document Feeder Scanner to make this e-text; hence, the original book was disbinded in order to save it.

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