Dear Minna!
Here is the letter to the King which you requested. May it have the expected success! It is written just the way you wanted it: it was finally possible for me to find the briefest and most appropriate expression for my points:
1. Dresden theater. 2. Your health, and the residence in Dresden necessary for it. 3. Reference to Pusinelli's statement (which is available if needed).
If it all depended on hearing from me, it will surely not fail to be successful this time.
I have been in a very bad humor these days. It is probably because nothing pleasant happens to me any more, hardship and worry keep torturing me. If I don't finish my projected opera by next winter, I really shan't know what to do. Nothing cheers me up or inspires me to work. There are always futile and disagreeable things which pursue a person into his very solitude.
Whoever wishes me well now, should only wish that I'll soon enjoy my work. God grant that nothing more will interfere with it, not this or the other thing, but that I can enjoy peace and quiet for once! Amen!
Source: Letters of Richard Wagner: The Burrell Collection, ed. John N. Burk (Macmillan, 1950), No. 249