Dear Old Fellow!
Do please send at once a revised score of the Flying Dutchman for the Carlsruhe Court Theatre, to E. D. Give me an account of what you have laid out, for you have certainly advanced money, and tell me how much I shall send you, so that you may have something in hand to go on with.
You are already accustomed to these flying notes, so that I need not apologize. With deep thanks, always
Your faithful
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. 143