[...] I have little news to tell and only wished to ask you to let it be unceremonious, "thee and thou," between us for the future. That is self-explanatory and greatly eases the style of letter-writing. Besides, it saves me further lengthy assurances, and that is something gained! For up till now I have managed to get no farther than letter-writing. It is shocking! Talk—or letter-writing—that threatens to become my ultimate vocation for life, it seems.
I am still not taken as present here. I have only shown myself to three friends. One of them, however, assures me to-day that all Paris knows where I am. After all, I am indifferent. I shall do as the ostrich does and hide my head in the sand. [...]
Source: Letters of Richard Wagner, Vol. 2, selected and ed. Wilhelm Altmann, trans. M. M. Bozman (J. M. Dent & Sons, 1927), No. 507