F. Liszt. Four autograph letters, including one to P. Viardot and one to his factotum Belloni, and other items, C19th

Franz Liszt

Four autograph letters signed, including one to Pauline Viardot, one autograph document, and one signature 

1) Autograph letter signed ("F. Liszt"), to Pauline Viardot, in French, praising her to the skies as a musician and composer, and informing her of his fulsome description of her for a distinguished female writer

...Je lui ai dit ce qu'elle sait comme tout le monde , c'est que Pauline Viardot est la plus admirable artiste dramatique de notre temps: en sus, archi musicienne, et compositeur de la plus fine et vive intelligence...

3 pages, 8vo, blind-stamp ("Collection Viardot"), Rome 12 December 1881

2) Autograph letter signed ("Liszt"), to his factotum Belloni, in French, making arrangements for a concert in Darmstadt, 1 page, 'BATH' paper, 8vo, 6 October

3) Autograph letter signed ("F.Liszt"), to the devoted carer during the final days of his life, Lina Schmalhausen, looking forward to seeing her punctually that evening, 1 page, 12mo, with an autograph envelope, no place or date ("Donnerstag")

4) Autograph letter signed ("F.Liszt"), to an unnamed friend ("Très cher ami"), asking to borrow the piano score of Carmen at that evening's performance, if he does not need it, 1 page, 12mo, no place or date ("Dimanche"), a few small marks

together with: an autograph document, providing details of a Klindworth edition of Chopin, 1 page, written on the lower half of an 8vo leaf; a bold autograph signature, dated 28 August 1841 (?); the front panel of an autograph envelope, addressed to Jules Guilliaume in Brussels, browned and torn; and some cut hair contained loose in an envelope inscribed in an unidentified hand "Haare von Franz Liszt"