. . . Everything should be cared for in a dignified and adequate manner. . . . I don't restrict the cost, so long as necessary and fitting details are looked out for. . . .
I also appreciate your doubly proved loyal and understanding attitude. I am certainly happy to be somewhat helpful to you for now and later. The last time I had the money sent through the housekeeper, since I myself would have got around to it too late. Farewell and thank you for your faithfulness. I am to go to my young King at Starnberg Lake at the end of May for a few months; for the rest I shall keep my actual residence near Lucerne for many years to come.
Source: Letters of Richard Wagner: The Burrell Collection, ed. John N. Burk (Macmillan, 1950), No. 289