Honored Friend!
I urgently ask you to let me know by return mail whether my letter to Lindemann has been taken care of and whether I can hope for an answer.
Lindemann's answer is so important to me that I am hoping you still consider me worth the sacrifice of a single line.
Richard Wagner
Source: Letters of Richard Wagner: The Burrell Collection, ed. John N. Burk (Macmillan, 1950), No. 115