Dearest Old Fellow!
Cordial thanks for sending my score. I am uneasy at your not enclosing a line, because it makes me think you are angry with me. Do assure me soon to the contrary.
The copy is, after all, so beautiful that I feel inclined to let Wölfel complete it, and so will send you back the score from Zurich. For the present, I really want it here.
My best thanks to you for fulfilling my large request. I see there is reason to be very cautious about X. I therefore enclose a letter to that gentleman, and beg you, before you close it and send it to X., to give it to your friend to read, for it seems important to me that my creditors should be exactly informed about my relations to X., so that they may take measures accordingly. Cordial greetings to P. also from us, and thank him for his forbearance, as well as for his faithful friendship.
I am now somewhat more cheerful, as my London visit is drawing to a close. At the next concert we are to have the Queen of England: it will be certainly interesting if I, as a high traitor with a public warrant out against me, conduct before Her Majesty and the Court. One might take a lesson from that. On the 30th of June I shall be back again in my dear Zurich.
Whenever will you come there, you old theatre-mate?
A thousand greetings to the Heinerei!
Farewell! and remain good to your much-afflicted
Richard Wagner.
The Ney sang in one of our concerts, and certainly her voice and style of singing both surprised and delighted me.
Source: Richard Wagner's Letters to His Dresden Friends, Theodor Uhlig, Wilhelm Fischer, and Ferdinand Heine, trans. J. S. Shedlock (Scribner & Welford, 1890), No. 135