[...] To-morrow I am going to Leipzig for Weissheimer's concert on November 2nd. If rehearsals permit [...] I shall run over to you before, but I have a great deal of other work in Leipzig, especially publishing business, and am afraid of breaking up my time, so I beg you not to expect me till the concert is over. Unfortunately, even then I can stay only two days with you at most, as I cannot go direct from Dresden to Vienna (where they urgently expect me), but must first return to Biebrich. The fact is that I have been unable to raise money anywhere, so that I leave a great many accounts unsettled here, and accordingly have been obliged to tell those interested that my impending journey to Leipzig was only a transitory visit [...]. Therefore, if I had taken my luggage for the winter, I should have attracted inconvenient notice [...] God grant that I may be luckier in Leipzig than I have been elsewhere! I never before in my life experienced such a persistent run of adversity [...] So it is high time to provide seriously for the rest of my life, and this provision must be, and is, my chief concern now. I still hope for a decided turn of fortune in my favour in Vienna. Although I am in a bad way there with Tristan, I am pleased to see by many signs that the Metternichs have been very helpful to me recently and, moreover, that there is a real goodwill towards me in high quarters. This—for the sake of saying something to cheer you up. [...]
Source: Letters of Richard Wagner, Vol. 2, selected and ed. Wilhelm Altmann, trans. M. M. Bozman (J. M. Dent & Sons, 1927), No. 543