Best of friends,
Please let me have two words to say whether you have received a parcel, sent from here on February 11th, and containing several copies of my new poem, The Ring of the Nibelung.
I had hoped that it would reach you before the 16th, but your letter makes no mention of it. I am very anxious about this, because it has spoiled a great pleasure to me. Therefore one word, please! If it has not arrived, I must apply for it at the post-office. All the rest I shall answer later on.
Source: Project Gutenberg eBook #3835, Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt — Volume 1, No. 100