Dear Old Fellow!
You will receive from the management of the Hamburg Theatre a bill for fifty louis d'or, payable at the end of November of this year, in return for which you have to send off Tannhäuser to them. Then send me the bill: there is some one from Hamburg here who will buy it.
Nothing about X. and the business? X. must really not sell any more scores; we shall at last run short of them, for fabulous applications are again pouring in on me!
What is Heine doing?
I sit here (between ice and bears) — who loves me, will take me away! Good-bye!
Your
R. W.
(Up to the 14th August I am still here; address here direct up to that date.)
Source: Richard Wagner's Letters to His Dresden Friends, Theodor Uhlig, Wilhelm Fischer, and Ferdinand Heine, trans. J. S. Shedlock (Scribner & Welford, 1890), No. 121