English Translation

16a And do you remember how you were in my parents' house listening to us with silent enthusiasm when we played music? I have dedicated myself to the music with my skin and hair and every winter we give two to three house music evenings and with it the old Karlovy Vary tradition high.Since last year I wrote and wrote you a letter in this affair= a short time ago to get advice from you, only Karl said, you have the head full of so many things, that I should not have you with such a thing.Finally I saw this and the written letter wandered into the fire.But now you have to have me in your kindness encouraged to write by Katl. Encouraged by the bad operetta texts that precede us, I began to write zäex first librettis, of which I have two forgiven ha= be.But soon I felt that I had to go further and wrote three novels covering every 1oo pages.In the middle of summer,a small town story and Andras,the story of a love. In addition, I took part in a competition with a short story, which is very contemporary and deals with our Egerland.A friend advised me to turn to the Kraf publishing house and so one day I went with the Hoc som= mer and the small town history under my arm to Adam Kraft. Originally it seemed as if I wanted white power to move my things.From the third side I understood that he liked them, but then one day I got them back as unsuitable for the Kraft's series sequence and I guess they might not have liked the editor.Maybe they are too little serious or up-to-date,because I write mainly of meadows, fields, people, music and animals.I can't write a philosophical or political work, because I don't have the pre-education,because there are no colleges etc. but I write with my heart and it will certainly be printed much worse than mine. In any case, Karl comforted me very much and told me that I should only continue to work, once I will already be happy and I am therefore not afraid, because with what fights our greatest of all often had to prevail and if a Schubert and Mozart had to die misunderstood how should I, poor Hascherl, rise up.The Ebner-Eschenbach had to wait O years before it was printed.But maybe _ch, if we are in Prague, may come to you once or what else vie. Would be nicer,you'll enjoy a restful hour and come to us? I would be so unspeakably happy to see you again at last!! Look, Karl once said to me when I had such a heavy heart, because we were so little good: "What's the matter, that we two are just worse, where now, since we are with the Empire, so many millions are better". This is the best way to recognise his idealism, which has not left him all his life.