I do not know how you are, my dear friend, or whether a longer stay in Lucerne is essential for the completion of your cure; but if so, I beg you will regard the request to put forward your arrival in Munich as non avenu. All the same, if it can be done without damaging you, we should be glad to have you here.
There is a good deal of argument going on in the Süddeutsche Presse, too, and Fröbel himself stands in need of enlightenment as to the aim of the paper entrusted to him. A mass of other things, impossible to explain in writing, is waiting to be discussed, and there are certain measures to be taken in common.
That it should be so hard to bring well-meaning individuals to the state of intelligent obedience, which is all one asks of them, even when many of the preliminary conditions have been fulfilled!
Source: Letters of Hans von Bülow to Richard Wagner, Cosima Wagner, His Daughter Daniela, Luise von Bülow, Karl Klindworth, Carl Bechstein, ed. Richard Count Du Moulin Eckart, trans. Hannah Waller, ed. Scott Goddard (Alfred A. Knopf, 1931), No. 289