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/)

Willm Hawes. 7. Adelphi Terrace. Strand. London.

My Dear Sir!

I have received in due time by Mr: Kemble your most obliging letter, and beg your Pardon for answering it so late: but my departure from Ems was so near, the yourney itself, and the quantity of bussiness which fell upon me on my return at home I hope will plead for your indulgence.

Ere I enter upon other Paragraphs of your Letter, let me pronounce how much I feel myself obliged to you, for all the Kind things you are pleased to honour me with; and that, respecting my =Freyschütz=. I am convinced that you have acted according to your best conviction for the success of this opera, which I always ought to and do , as for the Souvenir with which you will honor me. my Dear Sir! I shall be truely delighted in accepting it, as the first and only / / mark of remembrance which I have received of any Manager in Europe!

for the future, I hope we shall negotiate together without the interference of any other Person. it was Mr: Livius himself who in all manners searched to usurp my engagement with England; and I must confess that I have no great reasons to be much satisfied of his operations, which were at least very confuse. In the month of march 1826 when I arrive in London, I hope to explane and prove to you all those things better by word of mouth.

I have received by M: Bassenge et C: for your account one hundred Pounds. and have delivred in the first days of July the Partition and the Poem of Euryanthe and also the little Ballet of Preciosa to M: Bassenge to send them to M: Livius for you my Dear Sir[^1].

[^1: Im Tagebuch notierte Weber zwar am 1. Juli 1825 einen Besuch im Bankhaus Bassenge, aber nicht den Versand der Musikalien; 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.).]

In this varry moment I have neither Scores nor other Pieces for publication, being too much occuppied with Oberon and the calls of my duty; but it shall be a pleasure for me to inform you instantly when I have composed Some piece, and I hope we shall negotiate together with facility.

Let me now repetadly utter my thanks and the great pleasure which // your Kind writting has given me, my Dear Sir, and be sure that I am ever with regard and esteem my dear Sir your much obliged and very obedient Servant CMvW:
Dr: 18t 7b 1825 [Laut Tagebuch entworfen bereits am 15. September, abgesendet am 18. September 1825.].