Dear Friend,
Please pack up quickly a copy of the Rienzi Overture, which you will find separate, in very elegant binding, among the music I left at Dresden, and send it to Herr Musikdirektor Edele in Berne. I hope you are friendly? Good-bye.
Your
Richard 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. 117