Well! Härtels have only just read the "Vorwort," and will not venture to publish it. I have written to A. that he or another may undertake the matter.
I have just written to the R.'s.
You will receive, according to my instructions to Weber, two copies of Oper und Drama: one is for Rühlmann: best greetings to him from me. Heartiest wishes for Elsa's recovery! I have no fresh news.
I quite understood your joke — very good! Your "Confessions" excellent. I congratulate you! Likewise the remarks about Sattler. You are the right sort of chap! Good-bye, old fellow!
Your
R. W.
Source: Richard Wagner's Letters to His Dresden Friends, Theodor Uhlig, Wilhelm Fischer, and Ferdinand Heine, trans. J. S. Shedlock (Scribner & Welford, 1890), No. 41