sic and
musicians.]

Still one more bother.

At your leisure transcribe once more this unlucky Tarantella,
which will be sent to Wessel when the day [of publication] is
known. If I tire you so much with this Tarentella, you may be
sure that it is for the last time. From here, I am sure you
will have no more manuscript from me. If there should not be
any news from Schubert within a week, please write to me. In
that case you would give the manuscript to Troupenas. But I
shall write him about it.

[7.] Nohant [1841], Friday evening.

My dear Julius,--I send you a letter for Bonnet; read, seal,
and deliver it. And if in passing through the streets in which
you know I can lodge, you find something suitable for me,
please write to me. Just now the condition about the staircase
exists no longer. [FOOTNOTE: Chopin felt so much stronger that
high stairs were no longer any objection to lodgings.] I also
send you a letter to Dessauer [FOOTNOTE: Joseph Dessauer, a
native of Prague, best known by his songs. He stayed in Paris
in 1833, and afterwards settled in Vienna. George Sand
numbered him among her friends.] in answer to his letter which
Madame Deller sent me from Austria. He must already be back to
Paris; be sure and ask Schlesinger, who will be best able to
inform you of this.

Do not give Dessauer many particulars about me; do not tell
him that you are looking for rooms, nor Anthony either, for he
will mention it to Mdlle. de Rozieres, and she is a babbler
and makes the least thing a subject for gossip. Some of her
gossipings have already reached me here in a strange way. You
know how great things sometimes grow out of nothing if they
pass through a mouth with a loose tongue. Much could be said
on this head.

As to the unlucky Tarantella, you may give it to Troupenas
(that is, to Masset); but, if you think otherwise, send it by
post to Wessel, only insist on his answering at once that he
has received it. The weather has been charming here for the
last few days, but my music--is ugly. Madame Viardot spent a
fortnight here; we occupied ourselves less with music than
with other things.

Please write to me whatever you like, but write.

May Johnnie be in good health!

But remember to write on Troupenas's copy: Hamburg, Schubert;
Wessel, London.

In a few days I shall send you a letter for Mechetti in
Vienna, to whom I pro