My dear, dear Mendelssohn,
It gave me great pleasure to learn how well-disposed you are towards me. If I have come a little closer to you in the process, then that is the most welcome gain of my entire expedition to Berlin.
Fare you well!
Yours,
Richard Wagner.
Source: Selected Letters of Richard Wagner, trans. and ed. Stewart Spencer and Barry Millington (W. W. Norton & Company, 1988), No. 63