In order not to be exposed to the danger of annoying you further with “emotional and serious” turns of phrase, I am sending the 1st act of Tristan back to Härtel, and would ask you not to acquaint me with the remaining ones until they appear in print. -
Since the Dante Symphony and Mass cannot be treated as bank stock, it will be superfluous to send them to Venice. No less superfluous would it be for me to receive any further telegraphic despatches from there appealing for help, or letters that cannot but wound me. -
In genuine and truest devotion, I am,
Yours,
F. Liszt.
Source: Selected Letters of Richard Wagner, trans. and ed. Stewart Spencer and Barry Millington (W. W. Norton & Company, 1988)