Dearest Anton!
In expectation of a friendly answer to my last letter, I have a new request for today.
My wife has informed me of her apprehension of not being permitted to stay in Dresden. Would there be any likelihood of this?
I entreat you to take such steps immediately as may set me at rest on this score. Surely no one who gives the matter any consideration can wish now, in winter, to chase and drive out such an ailing woman, who has scarcely found a bit of rest there. Inquire where one should make application; if the worst comes, arrange at least for some postponement, until I can take further steps. As her doctor, you can be of great influence! — One must suffer every kind of experience!
I would send for my wife immediately, if it would not be a pitiless strain again for her!
Good-bye! Deepest thanks in advance!
Your
Richard Wagner
Source: The Letters of Richard Wagner to Anton Pusinelli, trans. and ed. Elbert Lenrow (Alfred A. Knopf, 1932), No. 22