Be brave, Hans, stand firm and all will come right! Send the letter on to your mother. Read it first and then you will know my opinion! At the same time I am sending Liszt a letter: he will do his part. [...] Come at once, and don't take a long time thinking about it! If you can, bring some money with you for yourself, but if not we must manage without. [...] But if you mean to waste time giving in and hesitating I shall not be pleased with you and you can stay away altogether!
You see I have become a boorish Swiss—that will not fit in with your rigid student code at all! [...]
Source: Letters of Richard Wagner, Vol. 1, selected and ed. Wilhelm Altmann, trans. M. M. Bozman (J. M. Dent & Sons, 1927), No. 186