[...] I invite you to come and take up your quarters with me this summer for as long as you can, with wife, child and maid. This is the result of lengthy deliberations. Hans, you will find me in clover—my life is completely metamorphosed! I am cared for by the truest love, the purest purpose.—But—my house is desolate! [...]
Source: Letters of Richard Wagner, Vol. 2, selected and ed. Wilhelm Altmann, trans. M. M. Bozman (J. M. Dent & Sons, 1927), No. 586