[...] I have been in frequent correspondence lately with Tichatschek. He begged that I would draw up a fresh petition to His Majesty for pardon and present it through Privy Councillor Behr. My reply was that I could think of nothing new to say to the King, and, as everything I had already said, or caused to be said, to him had achieved no response but contemptuous silence, I could not believe that the King expected to hear from me again. Furthermore, all the things that might be said in my favour could be said not by me but only by some third person. Could it be intimated to me that His Majesty only awaited a fresh petition from me to declare his intentions, I should be ready. But I must first be assured of that.—My dear child, after the recent performance of Lohengrin, Herr von Lüttichau might well have made occasion to assist me—were it only to make amends for the indecorous and contemptuous manner in which he waived aside my very exhaustive, and indeed very open-hearted, letter from Venice. But it does not occur to him. Well, at least I have reminded him through Tichatschek that the honorarium for Lohengrin should certainly, and with my consent, be set off against the large advance to me which remains unpaid. Only, properly speaking, he should have come to an agreement with me as to the amount of the honorarium, for I am no longer in his service and it was for me to assess the value of my works, etc. But these people continue to behave so discourteously and disrespectfully to me that I really have no wish to take the least notice of them outside the question of my rights. The——take the lot of them! [...]
Source: Letters of Richard Wagner, Vol. 2, selected and ed. Wilhelm Altmann, trans. M. M. Bozman (J. M. Dent & Sons, 1927), No. 428