A thousand thanks for your last news. The sudden change after the most terrible apprehension is only to be compared with my whole strange destiny. Best greetings and wishes for a happy recovery. Moreover, you may realize in what excitement I now live, but all will be wonderfully fine. Thanks for your true friendship; maintain it for me.
Richard Wagner
Source: The Letters of Richard Wagner to Anton Pusinelli, trans. and ed. Elbert Lenrow (Alfred A. Knopf, 1932), No. 39