My Dear Friend!
Ascribe it to the too great obstinacy of your friendship if I must again worry you to-day. The Schwerin Theatre has just written in the most pressing manner for the score of the Dutchman. I must therefore implore you, as soon as you have the Weimar music-score, at once to get 2 (two) copies arranged, of which the first is naturally to be sent to Breslau, but the second as quickly as possible (without previous notice from me) to Schwerin, addressed to the Court Theatre there.
You see, dear friend, you have brought this on yourself!!!!
Only rejoice me soon with consoling news of your improvement! With deepest sympathy,
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. 92