Your telegram, the date of which is unknown to me, I have received this evening here, where I have been detained by indisposition, and after all am too far away to help personally in the sad affair. I therefore ask you, as my noble loyal friend, to represent me in all matters involved. I am writing you and will expect a letter from you in Geneva, where I shall have returned by Tuesday. Kindly give my painful feelings full expression in all arrangements.
Wagner
Source: The Letters of Richard Wagner to Anton Pusinelli, trans. and ed. Elbert Lenrow (Alfred A. Knopf, 1932), No. 42