Dearest Old Fellow!
You will receive shortly through Walther, the theatre-director here, ten Napoleons d'or for expenses.
To-day I beg you to send off as quickly as possible a corrected copy of Tannhäuser to the Intendant of the Court Theatre at Hanover.
How are you? Have you spoken to Tichatschek? Farewell.
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. 127