Select paper (wall-paper) such as I had formerly, tourterelle (dove colour), only bright and glossy, for the two rooms, also dark green with not too broad stripes.  For the anteroom something else, but still respectable.  Nevertheless, if there are any nicer and more fashionable papers that are to your liking, and you think that I also will like them, then take them.  I prefer the plain, unpretending, and neat ones to the common shopkeeper’s staring colours.  Therefore, pearl colour pleases me, for it is neither loud nor does it look vulgar.  I thank you for the servant’s room, for it is much needed.

Now, as to the furniture:  you will make the best of it if you look to it yourself.  I did not dare to trouble you with it, but if you will be so kind, take it and arrange it as it ought to be.  I shall ask Grzymala to give money for the removal.  I shall write to him about it at once.  As to the bed and writing- desk, it may be necessary to give them to the cabinet-maker to be renewed.  In this case you will take the papers out of the writing-desk, and lock them up somewhere else.  I need not tell you what you ought to do.  Act as you like and judge what is necessary.  Whatever you may do will be well done.  You have my full confidence:  this is one thing.

  Now the second.

You must write to Wessel—­doubtless you have already written about the Preludes.  Let him know that I have six new manuscripts, for which I want 300 francs each (how many pounds is that?).  If you think he would not give so much, let me know first.  Inform me also if Probst is in Paris.  Further look out for a servant.  I should prefer a respectable honest Pole.  Tell also Grzymala of it.  Stipulate that he is to board himself; no more than 80 francs.  I shall not be in Paris before the end of October—­keep this, however, to yourself.

My dear friend, the state of Johnnie’s health weighs sometimes strangely on my heart.  May God give him what he stands in need of, but he should not allow himself to be cheated...However, this is neither here nor there.  The greatest truth in the world is that I shall always love you as a most honest and kind man and Johnnie as another.

  I embrace you both, write each of you and soon, were it of
  nothing more than the weather.—­Your old more than ever long-
  nosed

        Frederick.

  [3.]

According to your description and that of Grzymala you have found such capital rooms that we are now thinking you have a lucky hand, and for this reason a man—­and he is a great man, being the portier of George’s house—­who will run about to find a house for her, is ordered to apply to you when he has found a few; and you with your elegant tact (you see how I flatter you) will also examine what he has found, and give your opinion thereon.  The main point is that it should be detached, if possible; for instance, a little