[...] I send you herewith my just completed latest work, Art and Revolution. It is a new digest of the original text which I sent last week to Paris to be translated for the literary columns of the National. I don't know whether you will find it sympathetic, but I am certain that you and I are essentially at one. I hope you will find none of the political commonplaces, socialistic gibberish, nor personal animosities in it, against which you warned me. [...] Please have the manuscript and accompanying letter addressed and sent off to the publisher, Otto Wigand in Leipzig. My inferior journalistic capacities may perhaps help a little to keep me. Since my last letter, which I sent off at the same time as my frantic petition to you, I have heard no news of my wife and am consequently suffering tortures. [...]
Source: Letters of Richard Wagner, Vol. 1, selected and ed. Wilhelm Altmann, trans. M. M. Bozman (J. M. Dent & Sons, 1927), No. 157