Oh, you creature!
Here is my poem which I promised you and which you now receive because I have a safe way of sending it.
If you still have a good word for me, write to me soon again: if not, write to me anyway!
Greetings to Anders and Lindemann! Goodbye, you wicked animal!
Your
Richard Wagner
Source: Letters of Richard Wagner: The Burrell Collection, ed. John N. Burk (Macmillan, 1950), No. 127