Your arrangements, my dear friend, are admirable: I thank you with all my heart!
In order to enter upon my new indebtedness towards you in a way that is worthy and likely to inspire your future confidence, I am today repaying an old debt: give your wife the enclosed sonata, my first composition since the completion of Lohengrin (6 years ago!)
You will soon be hearing from me again: but first you must send me word as to how you are faring.
Yours,
Richard Wagner.
Source: Selected Letters of Richard Wagner, trans. and ed. Stewart Spencer and Barry Millington (W. W. Norton & Company, 1988), No. 162