[...] I have now decided, whatever happens, to stay in Paris some time in order to ascertain once for all whether it has any advantages to offer me, and I have given orders to-day for my furniture to be sent on. Besides, I am quite indifferent as to where I live, if I can only feel comfortable enough within my own four walls to be able to give myself up once more to the old delight in my work. [...]
For the present, I am preserving a strict incognito. [...]
[...] Those four bright days on your hospitable hill have acquired a lovely significance for me; they live in me still as pledges of a noble bliss such as never can be given, but only earned! Let us hold it fast! [...]
Source: Letters of Richard Wagner, Vol. 2, selected and ed. Wilhelm Altmann, trans. M. M. Bozman (J. M. Dent & Sons, 1927), No. 429