Dear Pussel!
The fact that you are not coming grieves me very much: it's exactly you to whom I would have enjoyed showing the theatre and — my young one!
That Wesendonck just now has "urgent business in Berlin" is — quite disheartening. It would have been excellent for him to be here!
Nevertheless — !
Now, one must know how to help oneself!
The Wagnerei sends most cordial greetings to you and the whole Pusselei!
Your
Troubled old
Richard W.
Source: The Letters of Richard Wagner to Anton Pusinelli, trans. and ed. Elbert Lenrow (Alfred A. Knopf, 1932), No. 74