Bad Fellow!
Surely it is your fault only that I have not yet received any answer from Lindemann; either you have not given him my letter or you are now putting off his answer, for you are a dawdler!
But I consider Lindemann's answer very important, and therefore I ask you urgently to see that he does answer quickly; or—if he does not want to answer me at all—that he so inform me.
I am sending herewith an explanation of the Tannhäuser Overture. Even if you don't want to perform it, see that it is translated.
Farewell!
Your
R. W.
Source: Letters of Richard Wagner: The Burrell Collection, ed. John N. Burk (Macmillan, 1950), No. 114