Dear Brother!
(In haste!) Genée in Dantzig wants Tannhäuser: I have asked ten louis d'or, and referred him to you about the ordering. If he writes, you are to send it; so take the agreed honorarium as a postal advance on the book and score, together with four copies of the Guide. Keep as much of the money as you think you will require for disbursements, and give the rest to my mother-in-law, Frau Planer (Herzogin-Garten, No. 7).
Good-bye! Soon more and much from your incorrigible but grateful
Richard Wagner.
If you receive an order-slip with postal certificate for ten louis d'or from Freiburg, send off at once a Tannhäuser score!
Source: Richard Wagner's Letters to His Dresden Friends, Theodor Uhlig, Wilhelm Fischer, and Ferdinand Heine, trans. J. S. Shedlock (Scribner & Welford, 1890), No. 115