My Dear Pussel!
Two words! I have no time — because of enormous work — for any more.
Your letter gave me sincere pleasure. If Dresden is bad — then the more honour for me! Besides, there I know only you and your family, and in all other respects Dresden is utterly strange to me. — But your idea of a concert is capital: it rather attracts me, giving this "sample card" a hearing — naturally only in the audience! — Then when might the folly take place? — On the 5th of May I must go to Vienna. On the 15th I'm to be back here and then it would take a lot of trouble to get away for a day.
But you must arrange to come here on the 22nd! Listen, it will be beautiful here, far more beautiful than in the opera-house that burned down. — The Devil take Prince George! I was plainly misled about him. They had told me — et cetera. Let him go!
Greet your dear good little wife, and the whole Pusselei from top to bottom! — You will always be my dear good old friend!
Cordially, your
Richard Wagner
(Wife and children are following me here next week. Shall succeed!)
Source: The Letters of Richard Wagner to Anton Pusinelli, trans. and ed. Elbert Lenrow (Alfred A. Knopf, 1932), No. 60