[...] It is time that I gave you some sign of life so that I may earn one from you! [...] My wife [...] is thinking of going to Dresden shortly to set up a small house there with our household things—as is also my wish.
I can rely on your great kindness to receive her with friendship and forbearance. Her education and her intellectual limitations deprive her of the power of finding in me and my nature the consolation and inspiration which she has so greatly needed as compensation for the calamities of our exterior circumstances. [...]—For the present, may I ask you to give to my wife the sum of money which I may expect very shortly (and for which I am ever grateful to you) as I intend it for her immediate needs. [...]
It was remarkable that Karl should have acted upon my invitation to him to visit me just at the moment when I had decided on Italy as my place of residence. His enthusiastic descriptions made me decide on Venice, and so we are together again, getting on most excellently in a common complete seclusion. Forgive me once more for the former detestable irritability which certainly led my judgment astray. I am glad to count for something with Karl now, and he for his part is of inestimable value to me just because he is what he is.
Source: Letters of Richard Wagner, Vol. 2, selected and ed. Wilhelm Altmann, trans. M. M. Bozman (J. M. Dent & Sons, 1927), No. 369