Dear Friend:
If letters addressed to me should be delivered to you, please be so kind as to keep them for the time being. Later on I will write and tell you where to forward them. For good reasons let it right now be my secret where I am going. I am retiring into solitude!
Farewell!
Your
Richard Wagner
Source: Letters of Richard Wagner: The Burrell Collection, ed. John N. Burk (Macmillan, 1950), No. 91