Dear Friend!
Before the close of this weary year, I still must ask you for some information.
About 3 weeks ago, Wesendonck wrote me that he was about to have a conference with you. Please tell me what was intended there, and what perhaps has come of it. I am standing at the point of a crisis, and by the end of the year I must know whether there may be some definite help for my enterprise. For whether or not we have a performance in 1875 depends on whether I can issue the necessary commissions on the 1st of January. In short, has — or has not — anything been done on the part of Wesendonck (whom, however, I have no wish to urge further)? That's what I should like to know.
And now, best wishes for a Happy New Year to you, your dear wife, and your entire excellent family, from me and my family! Good-bye, dear beloved friend!
Your
Richard Wagner
Source: The Letters of Richard Wagner to Anton Pusinelli, trans. and ed. Elbert Lenrow (Alfred A. Knopf, 1932), No. 76