Dearest Friend,
I am off to the country to-day, and, while there, I want to know that any business matters, and especially vexatious ones, are settled, so that at last I may again be able to confer with my muse.
To-day I received two letters from you at once, the one with the money, and the other sent afterwards.
It is remarkable that the K.'s feel themselves irresistibly drawn towards Zurich. We have found them a summer abode on the heights, a quarter of an hour from the town. The situation was so beautiful, and I so long for scenery and fresh air, that I quickly resolved to lodge in the same inn. So from to-day we and the K.'s live on the same plot of ground. Merely address your letters to Zurich; everything is arranged with the postman.
I do not make any further reply to your letter to-day: I shall have the opportunity next time. Cheer up, that your health is once more improving: accept my heartiest congratulations.
Farewell, and hold me in kind remembrance!
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. 64