Dear Nante!
Would it be possible to lend the costume-pictures for Tannhäuser to the very small (but well-disposed) theatre at Freiburg (Baden); or, if not, to let it have them as cheaply as possible? The people there have arranged the rest as well as they could. If you can, then do it quickly; for they have been doddering, and are now in a desperate hurry. I shall soon set to the Lohengrin work, which I shall then send you at the same time as the pianoforte score. Hearty greeting from
Your
R. Wagner.
Source: Richard Wagner's Letters to His Dresden Friends, Theodor Uhlig, Wilhelm Fischer, and Ferdinand Heine, trans. J. S. Shedlock (Scribner & Welford, 1890), No. 170