WeGA, Briefe, Digitale Edition
author: Jähns, Friedrich Wilhelm
language: en
availability: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

England
Via Ostende
To
Charles J. Hargitt.
Esq.
London.
Thurloe Cottage.
Thurloe Square.
fr.

F. W. Jähns. Berlin.

To Charles J. Hargitt Esq. London. Thurloe Cottage Thurloe Square. Berlin. S. W. 24. Markgrafenstrasse
20th Mai 1874.
My dear Sir,

Receive my heartiest thanks for your kind and valuable letter of the 9th of this month. Believe me when I say, that if I have had the pleasure of having served you in a trifle. I strongly feel that my debt is not by any means cancelled. And yet you are again about to increase my obligations, and to send me the autograph of the pieces from Oberon [Fragment (1 Bl.) aus dem Oberon-Klavierauszug (Nr. 12 ½, 16 und Beginn Nr. 19) in Abschrift von A. B. Fürstenau mit autographer Textunterlegung Webers als Übersetzungsvorlage für Karl Theodor Winkler.].

This is really too good of you; accept even now my best thanks for the same, As to the genuineness of the two autographs of Schubert, there cannot be the slightest doubt. I know his handwriting quite as well as that of Weber, and myself possess a very fine Autograph of his.

I declare again explicitly that both of the autographs are perfectly authentic, the name, notes, and words of the text being in Schubert’s own handwriting.

The sum of 5 ₤ 5 Sh. was paid to me yesterday at the postoffice here. And I enclose the blank, you forwarded to me filled in with my signature & the receipt. With best compliments I remain My dear Sir your deeply indebted friend in Apolline Friedr. Wilh. Jähns.