40, if not earlier.]--and give the following number to the
Tarantella.

I am keeping my mind easy, for I know you are willing and
clever. I trust you will receive from me no more letters
burdened with commissions. Had I not been with only one foot
at home before my departure you would have none of these
unpleasantnesses. Attend to the Tarantella, give it to Leo,
and tell him to keep the money he may receive till I come
back. Once more I beg of you to excuse my troubling you so
much. To-day I received the letter from my people in Poland
you sent me. Tell the portier to give you all the letters
addressed to me.

[4.]

My dear friend,--As you are so good, be so to the end. Go to
the transport commission-office of Mr. Hamberg et Levistal
successeurs de Mr. Corstel fils aine et Cie, rue des Marais
St. Martin, No. 51, a Paris, and direct them to send at once
to Pleyel for the piano I am to have, so that it may go off
the next day. Say at the office that it is to be forwarded par
un envoy [sic] accelere et non ordinaire. Such a transport
costs of course far more, but is incomparably quicker. It will
probably cost five francs per cwt. I shall pay here. Only
direct them to give you a receipt, on which they will write
how many cwts. the piano weighs, when it leaves, and when it
will arrive at Chateauroux. If the piano is conveyed by
roulage [land-transport]--which goes straight to Toulouse and
leaves goods only on the route--the address must not be a la
Chatre, [FOOTNOTE: Instead of "la Chatre" we have in
Karasowski's Polish book "la Chatie," which ought to warn us
not to attribute all the peculiar French in this letter to
Chopin, who surely knew how to spell the name of the town in
the neighbourhood of the familiar Nohant.] but Madame
Dudevant, a Chateauroux, as I wrote above. [FOOTNOTE: "Address
of the piano: Madame Dudevant, a Chateauroux. Bureau Restant
chez M. Vollant Patureau." This is what Chopin wrote above.]
At the last-mentioned place the agency has been informed, and
will forward it at once. You need not send me the receipt, we
should require it only in case of some unforeseen reclamation.
The correspondent in Chateauroux says that PAR LA VOYE
ACCELERE [SIC] it will come from Paris in four days. If this
is so, let him bind himself to deliver the piano at
Chateauroux in four or five days.

Now to other business.

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