[footnote:  Pacini, a Paris music-publisher.  He published the Waltz in A flat major, Op. 42, in the summer of 1840, 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.

Should Pleyel make any difficulties, apply to Erard; I think that the latter in all probability ought to be serviceable to you.  Only do not act hastily, and first ascertain how the matter really stands.

  As to the Tarantella, seal it and send it to Hamburg.  To-
  morrow I shall write you of other affairs, concerning
  Troupenas, &c.