[...] Be kind enough to send me two things—(1) My Faust Overture. [...] I feel I want to revise it a little and have it published by Härtel's. [...] (2) My introduction to the performance of Lohengrin, which I sent you in letter form from Thun in the summer of 1850. I set special store by my beautiful original drawings of the scenery. [...]
When are you going to send me something of your composition? I cannot get a sight of any of it here, and, indeed, hear practically nothing of music in general. Think of me some time! [...]
Source: Letters of Richard Wagner, Vol. 1, selected and ed. Wilhelm Altmann, trans. M. M. Bozman (J. M. Dent & Sons, 1927), No. 224