LISZT Franz (1811 - 1886) L.A.S. "F. Liszt", Weymar March 20, 1851, to a journalist, 4 pages small in-4. He breaks "a silence of several years", yielding "to the interest I am duty-bound to take in a thought and a foundation which, as much by the sympathies they have already met as by the patronage they seem assured of, announce themselves as destined to occupy a large place in the development of art in Germany". Germany". He asks the journalist to "find some time to look through my brochure on the Goethe Foundation" [De la Fondation Goethe à Weimar (Leipzig, F. A. Brockhaus, 1851)], and to grant him "a few columns in the Augsburg Gazette, whose high credit and universal influence could contribute so effectively to hastening the definitive realization of the Goethe Foundation, and to give translated extracts (from the 2nd and 3rd parts) of the brochure", which had interested M. Dingelstadt during his stay in Germany. Dingelstadt during his stay in Weimar for the Herder-Goethe celebrations; but the latter did not produce the promised summary. Liszt reminds his correspondent of "the honorable proposal 9 years ago, to accept for the Augsburg Gazette, some correspondence, not very frequent, on special subjects of music, dated Weymar, and signed with my name or marked with a particular sign, as you may deem appropriate? - My inveterate awkwardness in handling German phraseology would oblige me to write usually in French, but this difficulty would be very minimal for your sheet, and would only occasionally cause a slight embarrassment of translation"... In a postscript, he points out passages from his brochure that should be quoted...