[...] Of late I have had many visitors: the Bülows have been here for two months; for a time they have been joined by Schnorr of Carolsfeld (the son, tenor) with his wife, both of whom I am coaching in the Tristan, which they hope to bring out at Dresden this winter. — The Meistersinger work is going well, but alas! so slowly that I still am much troubled about my immediate future. [...]
Source: Richard Wagner's Letters to Wesendonck et al., trans. and indexed by William Ashton Ellis (Grant Richards, 1899), No. 34