This is to convey, venerable Master, the news of the great success of Rienzi, which has been performed on our stage on the 2nd and 3rd holiday and which has been placed on the repertory for the 6th of the coming month. I enclose a program as well as two modest critical essays of the small local daily and close with the cordial wish that the "Tribune of Weimar" may be a forerunner in miniature for the "Minnesinger of Paris."
In sincere admiration
Your devoted
Fr. Dingelstedt
Source: Letters of Richard Wagner: The Burrell Collection, ed. John N. Burk (Macmillan, 1950), No. 226