GRILLPARZER, FRANZ, to Baroness Henriette Pereira. A. L. S.

1 2/^PP* Super- Avo. July 17, 1837. (Vianna?).

Honored and gracious Lady:

Separated fron you by several sojourns in the

countryside and by Office hours, by lack of time and now by bad weather, I hope you will forgive me for my addressing to you a ^ort of

ridiculous question, temporarily in writing.

If thafmeans ridiculous from the view point

of most people, it does not mean-- even if the question cannot be complied with— ridiculous in your eyes.

It is briefly this: A young man from Königsberg in Prussia, afflicted with very bad eyesight, feels such an overpuwering calling for poesy that, sensing the impossibility to live for that calling, he abandons his profession that of a tutor, in the belief to find a land- owner who would grant him a free stay in the country for a year during which time the young man would finish one of his planned works. Pro- vided with the best credentials about his good conduct, he goes to Berlin where he is well- received, but to his surprise, he does not find a landowner inclined to comply with his wishes. The same is true of Dresden where Tiedge is much