[...] You could only understand my position if you were actually present.
Therefore only this much by letter. For weeks I have been yearning for the day of my departure hence. I can leave on the 14th, which is as much as to say I must leave.
I shall write to you again from wherever I first settle temporarily. It was very painful not to have you beside me at this important crisis in my life. [...]
Source: Letters of Richard Wagner, Vol. 1, selected and ed. Wilhelm Altmann, trans. M. M. Bozman (J. M. Dent & Sons, 1927), No. 360