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Vienna, January 30, 1875
Dear Friend,
You guessed right—I did not have my portrait taken voluntarily but on the very highest orders, so as to persuade my relatives in England1 to commit a similar foul deed. It will not have escaped your notice that I wanted to procure the same thing from you, so bear in mind that I am looking forward to receiving a photograph of you very soon, the better to keep your fondly remembered features before my eyes and to afford me a lasting memento of your stay in Leipzig.
If that should be followed by one or two semesters spent together in the capital of the New German Reich—which, it would seem,