Dear Wagner!
It's a very, very long time since I have heard from you! What are you doing and how are the Tannhäuser rehearsals going? When shall we be able to hear anything of it? I beg you to reserve for me two more orchestra seats.
Accept the renewed assurance of my entire devotion.
Princess Metternich
Source: Letters of Richard Wagner: The Burrell Collection, ed. John N. Burk (Macmillan, 1950), No. 230