Dear Friend and Comrade,
If you have any money for me, you will do me a kindness by sending it. The 3rd quarter is always bad for a composer!
Your letter about the Munich performances went to my heart: I have told my King a deal about it, also about yourself!
Now may all-kind Heaven shed its blessing on all further efforts! Frau Heckel and the Fischers — together with yourself — are heartily greeted by
Your
quite especially devoted
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. 89