Famous Love Letters

Mozart

8th April, 1789, Budweis.

DEAREST LITTLE WIFE!

While the Prince is engaged in bargaining for horses, I joyfully seize the occasion to write you a few lines, little wife of my heart! How goes it with you? Do you think of me as often as I do of you? Every moment I look at your portrait and weep, half for joy, half for sorrow! Look after your precious health, which means so much to me, my dear, and farewell! ~Do not be anxious on my account, for I am suffering no hardships or inconveniences on this journey, save that of thy absence, which, since it can't be cured must be endured. I write with eyes full of tears. Adieu. I will write you a longer and more legible letter from Prague when I shall not be in such haste. Adieu. I kiss you a million times most tenderly, and am ever thine, true till death,

stu~stu~Mozart

Kiss Karl for me, and all kind remembrances to Herr and Frau von Puchberg. More very soon.

Dresden, 13th April, I 1789
7 o'clock in the morning.

DEAREST, BEST LITTLE WIFE!

We expected to reach Dresden after dinner on Saturday, but did not arrive till six o'clock on Sunday evening, as the roads are so bad. Yesterday I went to the Neumanns', where Madame Duschek is staying, to deliver her husband's letter. They live on the third story overlooking the road that they can see from their room who is coming. When I reached door Herr Neumann was there before me, and asked me with whom had the honour to be speaking. "I will tell you at once who I am,' replied, "only pray be so good as to have Madame Duschek summoned so that my joke may not be spoiled."

But at the same moment Madame Duschek stood before me, for she had recognised me from the wind and had said at once: "There comes someone who looks like Mozart They were all delighted. The company was large and consisted entirely of ugly women, but they make up for lack of beauty here by virtue. Today the Prince and I go out to breakfast, then to see Neumann, then to the chapel. Tomorrow or the day after we shall leave here for Leipzig. After receiving this letter you must write to Berlin, poste restante. I hope got my letter from Prague safely. The Neumanns and Duscheks send their kind regards to you and also to Herr and Frau Lang.

     Dearest little wife, if only I had a letter from you! If I were to you all the things I do with your dear portrait you would often laugh I think!For instance, when I take it out of its case, I say, "Good morrow Stanzeri! Good day, little rogue! --pussy-wussy! saucy one! --good-for nothing! --dainty morsel!" And when I put it back I slip it in little by little saying all the time, "Nu~nu~nu~nu"!" with just the peculiar emphasis this very meaningful word demands, and then, just at the last, quickly, "Good night, little pet --sleep sound!" Well, I suppose what I have written is folly (to the world, at least ~ but to us, loving other as devotedly as we do, it is not folly. Today is the sixth since I you, and, by God, it seems a year! I expect you will often find it hard to read my letters, as I write in haste, and therefore rather badly. Adieu ~ my dear, my only love.

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