My dear Heckel,
God grant you long life, at anyrate a good deal longer than my own, that there may be somebody, after my death, to form a stock — in himself — for further planting!
I understand all, but say little now; wherever possible, nothing. I can do no else than wait until outsiders catch me up, for I seem to have stridden too far ahead!
Hearty greeting!
Your
Rich. Wagner.
Source: Letters of Richard Wagner to Emil Heckel, with a Brief History of the Bayreuth Festivals, trans. William Ashton Ellis (Grant Richards, 1899), No. 75