## Title: Friedrich Wilhelm Jähns to Charles John Hargitt in London. Berlin, Wednesday, May 20, 1874
## Author: Jähns, Friedrich Wilhelm
## Version: 4.13.0
## Origin: https://weber-gesamtausgabe.de/A043774
## License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/


               England
               Via Ostende
               To
               Charles J. Hargitt.
               Esq.
                London.
               Thurloe Cottage.
               Thurloe Square.
               #lb#
               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“.

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.