My Good Friend!
Herr Halbert tells me you would like to have my overture to Goethe's Faust. I have no reason for withholding it, save that I no longer like it; but I send it to you because the point is, after all, whether you will like it! If this should be so, my work is at your command, only I should prefer to have the manuscript back some time at your convenience. [...]
Source: Letters of Richard Wagner, Vol. 1, selected and ed. Wilhelm Altmann, trans. M. M. Bozman (J. M. Dent & Sons, 1927), No. 136