Dear old Friend,
You surely must again have amassed some money for me of late; I'm not quite sure if I have already written begging you to have the money sent to Feustel at Bayreuth, the receipt-forms for my signature, however, to myself at "Villa Angri, Posilipo, Naples."
I hear nothing from you, not even — and unfortunately — on the aforesaid business route. Am I already dead for all Germania, then, or have you perished through theatric art? For the rest, I am not being treated quite as I deserve: we shall see if that will be improved by yourself.
Best greetings from villa to house! Remain good to
Your
thoroughly 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. 90