Dearest friend,
I think of nothing now but our meeting and being together. I am glad you did not come sooner, because at present I should be able to show you very little of the Valkyrie, and I am pleased therefore to have a good deal of time for the completion of the score. By November I shall have finished, at least, the first two acts, even the clean copy of them.
Consider this, and bear in mind that it will be a climax of our lives, for the sake of which all common things must be got over and brought into order. I count upon your magnanimity.
Farewell for today. I send you many greetings from a longing heart.
Source: Project Gutenberg eBook #4234, Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt — Volume 2, No. 193