Dear Kietz, - Berlioz has not obtained a ticket for me; - as a result I shall not be remaining in town & shall not be spending the night at your place. I have put my affairs in the hands of God & Meyerbeer, - here are 50 fr. to be going on with, - it’s an additional sum I have managed to get hold of, - how? I’ll tell you when I next see you - go easy on the pederasty!
Yours,
Richard Wagner.
Source: Selected Letters of Richard Wagner, trans. and ed. Stewart Spencer and Barry Millington (W. W. Norton & Company, 1988), No. 39