[...] I have Reissiger in my pocket now—I have presented him with my operatic subject, the Hohe Braut. When I read it to him yesterday he was quite carried away—all fire and flame; he is to be very industrious in return!
[...] On coming home yesterday evening from the theatre I found an unfranked letter from Paris which cost me sixteen groats. It was from Troupenas, reminding me in the friendliest possible way about those musical arrangements. I sat down at once and worked till twelve o'clock at night to finish the arrangements. [...]
Source: Letters of Richard Wagner, Vol. 1, selected and ed. Wilhelm Altmann, trans. M. M. Bozman (J. M. Dent & Sons, 1927), No. 71