How is it at all possible, dearest friend, that I can still receive from Dresden communications like the one which I am enclosing herewith? — These people act as if they knew nothing at all about the assignment of rights! It's all a puzzle to me! — Nevertheless, in accordance with your earlier advice that I should refrain from further interference, I am sending you this important statement of accounts, along with the letter from Attorney Stavenhagen; write this gentleman that I have forwarded it to you, and please let me know, occasionally and briefly, at your own convenience, how things actually stand with this business.
Since the statement closes with the summer of 1856, we may expect that the newest accounting, when this "test" management has been concluded, will already show considerable results — a thought which gives me a certain degree of consolation.
I am glad also to hear that you and your dear family are in good health, and with hearty friendship and faithful gratitude I remain your
Richard Wagner
Source: The Letters of Richard Wagner to Anton Pusinelli, trans. and ed. Elbert Lenrow (Alfred A. Knopf, 1932), No. 16