O Kietz!
If your gracious host wants to put me up for one night with all that that involves, I'll arrive in Epernay on Wednesday at 4:30 and hope to be met by you.
Please give my kindest compliments to your dear friends and apologize for me in advance for the trouble I'm going to cause them.
Farewell!
Your
R. W.
Source: Letters of Richard Wagner: The Burrell Collection, ed. John N. Burk (Macmillan, 1950), No. 173