4.30 o'clock.
My Most Honoured Friend,
Weary and harassed as almost never before, I have just come home, having been out since 10 o'clock knocking about with Garcia, Joly, Dumersan, Meyerbeer, etc., so I must heartily thank you for your invitation to go to the Italian Opera with you to-day but must postpone the pleasure for another time. For the rest, I have to-day come to know Garcia for a most amiable and helpful creature and she has offered to assist me in any way I may ask her to do so. [...]
Source: Letters of Richard Wagner, Vol. 1, selected and ed. Wilhelm Altmann, trans. M. M. Bozman (J. M. Dent & Sons, 1927), No. 47