Dear Friend,
A few days ago the highly conscientious Prague director sent me the honorarium even before receiving the score: I hope he has got the latter by now? To-day Breslau also sends its golden tribute. I have lost all patience with Leipzig. Already a few days ago I wrote to Rietz to remind W.; but I presume even that will be of no avail, and I therefore beg you (are you angry?) to carry out the enclosed "commission" through some acquaintance of yours (perhaps the first musician you come across). I am getting in a rage with this director: he does not answer at all.
To-day I forward you also a score of Lohengrin, which I request you to send to Julius Schäffer (whose address I do not know).
This is all I can write to-day! Take it not ill!
Your
R. W.
Keep scores still in readiness. I have just received a letter from Cologne: I have drawn an acceptance-permit for ten louis d'or.
Source: Richard Wagner's Letters to His Dresden Friends, Theodor Uhlig, Wilhelm Fischer, and Ferdinand Heine, trans. J. S. Shedlock (Scribner & Welford, 1890), No. 78