Vienna, June 28, 1875

¡Querido Berganza!

Please accept my hearty congratulations on your first public address, which I was particularly pleased to see was given, not in favor of the social democrats, but in honor of stenography, which does so much credit to the century of steam. I would never dream of trying to impose restraints on you where I would have you let yourself go most unreservedly: in a letter to a friend. Moreover, I can read your shorthand script quite comfortably, much better than my own, which is so atrocious that in my correspondence with you I am compelled