Dearest Old Friend!
Do not be angry with me if, after a lengthy silence, I only send you to-day a hurried request. Liszt, who is still with me, is pressing me for my arrangement of Palestrina's Stabat Mater. I once asked you to send it here with some other things. Would you be kind enough to send me a parcel right quickly, and, beside the Stabat, put in the Bach Motets and Passion music, the Ninth Symphony, etc.? The score of the Iphigenia in Aulis that I asked for I would also much like to have: you said, you know, that Lüttichau had consented to let me have a copy.
So let me have the said things at once. I am more and more satisfied with my health: my last cure was highly beneficial to me, and I am well rid of the wretched erysipelas. Also I have again commenced working with great eagerness. Liszt's visit is now engrossing my time. Whenever shall I see you again? And how are you? Always active and jolly? That, etc., Tichatschek has not written me a word since his visit: tell him he is a —
And greet Heine, and hold me dear, as you always are and will be to 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. 141