I have just received your letter; as I am expecting R. and W., who may come in at any moment, I must defer answering you at length until tomorrow. But I will not go to bed today without thanking you most sincerely for the great benefit you have conferred upon me by your letter. I am often in a state of convulsive excitement, and must then look very ugly. But that state has now disappeared entirely; you took it away today.
I shall say more about this tomorrow, and you will find me in a willing frame of mind for confessing my sins.
One word more. If I have understood your short hint rightly, let me ask you, for Heaven's sake, not to send me any money now. I could not bear it. Send me your Ideals, and, when it is ready, your Dante; those I am looking for longingly.
The boys have just come in; the well-brought-up K. thanks you a thousand times for your remembrance of him.
More tomorrow, God willing.
My blessings on you!
Source: Project Gutenberg eBook #4234, Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt — Volume 2, No. 284