My dear Ernst Benedikt!
I'll be able to pay for your trip from Zürich to Lucerne and return. What kind of dawdling is this, anyway! So, we'll see you at Triebschen: you can stay here.
I didn't get your letter to Berlin. That I sent you the pamphlet twice was pure coincidence.
God! What will happen to me next!!
O Kietz—is simply an exclamation! You don't seem to understand this any more either, do you? Things will really be fine! But just come!
Cordially,
Your R. W.
Source: Letters of Richard Wagner: The Burrell Collection, ed. John N. Burk (Macmillan, 1950), No. 306