My dear Wesendonck,
You have much affected and delighted me by your beautiful letter. My thanks are borne to you to-day by a mightier than me; he knows all you have been, and ever will remain, to me. It was a noble solace, to be able to make that understood of him.
My very heartiest greetings to you! I still am very sore. Total seclusion from the world, and the most strenuous productivity, to which I shall exclusively devote myself henceforward, alone can heal the deep wounds from which I suffer.
Farewell — and greet the dear wife most cordially from
Your faithfully devoted
Richard Wagner.
Source: Richard Wagner's Letters to Wesendonck et al., trans. and indexed by William Ashton Ellis (Grant Richards, 1899), No. 40