Dear Old One!
My wife is to arrive tomorrow (Thursday) evening in Dresden, will stop at Hotel Weber (the "tower house"), place her daughter in boarding-school (Louisa Seminary) on Friday afternoon, and travel to Leipzig on Saturday in order to join me there for further travel.
Unusually pressing business, with its consequent needs, may serve as some excuse, if I do no more now than greet you most heartily as
Your
Quite oldest of all
Friends
Richard Wagner
Source: The Letters of Richard Wagner to Anton Pusinelli, trans. and ed. Elbert Lenrow (Alfred A. Knopf, 1932), No. 78