WeGA, Briefe, Digitale Edition
author: Weber, Carl Maria von
language: en
availability: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Sir!

I have received in due time your honored Letter of July 21, at Ems. what shall I reply, after so varry different representations, –nothing, than my hearty wish to find in all things the best side. – finally let us pass over things past, and allow me to render you my thanks for the nice box [Zum Erhalt der goldenen Dose vgl. Webers Tagebuchnotiz vom 10. August 1825.] which you have been so good to send me by Sir George Smart.

The waters of Ems have proved effications to my health, and though my hoarsness and cold are not cured till now, yet the totality of my frame is much better.

I wonder to learn by a letter of Mr: Hawes of the 28t July that you had not yet received at that time Euryanthe, which went from here in the first days of july[^1]. but I hope that it has been retarded only a few days more.

[^1: Im Tagebuch hielt Weber den Versand der Musikalien nicht fest; möglicherweise übernahm diesen Caroline von Weber nach der Abreise ihres Ehemanns nach Ems (3. Juli 1825). Im Ausgabenbuch (D-B, Mus. ms. autogr. theor. C. M. v. Weber WFN 2, Bl. 110v) notierte Weber die Partitur für Hawes in London als zuletzt kopierte (Nr. 16, Preis: 18 rh.).]

I am with esteem Sir your most obedient Servant. vW:
Dresden 18 September 1825 [Laut Tagebuch entworfen bereits am 15. September, abgesendet am 18. September 1825.]
Barham Livius. Dorset cottage. Grosvenor Place. London.