Dear honoured Friend,
I take the liberty of recalling myself to your memory by sending you a new brochure of mine — this time About Conducting. — Some things in it will interest you. Perhaps, however, some will also give a slight offence — if not exactly in your house, yet elsewhere at Zurich; wherefore I withhold the booklet from another quarter.
You see, I stand to my guns and don't lose heart, though every hope.
With the heartiest greetings and most grateful remembrances,
Your faithful
Richard Wagner.
Source: Richard Wagner's Letters to Wesendonck et al., trans. and indexed by William Ashton Ellis (Grant Richards, 1899), No. 61