Dear friend,
If you tell me where I should recommend you, I shall do so. - Bülow has obtained Hanover - I know of no other posts there. All these intendants have a personal dislike of me. I cannot obtain posts for anyone: I tried it in Munich for Fischer, but they treated him so badly that he couldn’t stay, whereas everything has turned out very well for him in Mannheim - why? - because Heckel has gained influence there.
Really, it can only torment me to know that people think I could help them but that I do not wish to do so. Theatres are now a foreign place to me. - What then? Patience! It was just the same for me!
Best wishes.
Yours truly,
R. Wagner.
Source: Selected Letters of Richard Wagner, trans. and ed. Stewart Spencer and Barry Millington (W. W. Norton & Company, 1988), No. 459