From your letter I perceive for the first time that my presence in Dresden is superfluous now. Since time and effort are costly to me, I beg, in accordance with your own suggestions, a later sojourn that will serve the purpose and be prepared, necessarily for the beginning of February. Accordingly I am travelling directly to Berlin this time. We shall then correspond further about it.
Richard Wagner
Source: The Letters of Richard Wagner to Anton Pusinelli, trans. and ed. Elbert Lenrow (Alfred A. Knopf, 1932), No. 68