You see, honoured friend, we no longer need lack; what we long have striven for is now attained — we are made an Honorary Member of the Netherlands Music-society. Our first joint laurel-wreath I beg you to hang up in your counting-house: the sight of it will give you courage and endurance, as it already has much exalted me!
Your
R. W.
Source: Richard Wagner's Letters to Wesendonck et al., trans. and indexed by William Ashton Ellis (Grant Richards, 1899), No. 4