[...] I cannot answer the letter your dear brother Heinrich last wrote me from Vienna. Think how greatly I need to forget, if I am to attain even a measure of tranquillity! Emotion persists only up to a certain point, beyond which insensibility sets in. I have proved the tenacity of my feelings by clinging to the things I thought worth preserving until my friends are weary of me. But I must not be expected to write at large to your brother on the difference between my dealings with Tausig and with Cornelius. The facts in themselves will make it clear to him.
My house is full of life now. Bülow, with his wife and children, has been here some time. I am to have the pleasure of keeping Bülow here altogether, as the young King wishes to attach him to me and to himself. I found no difficulty in making an arrangement so agreeable to all three. Klindworth is also with me. We play a great deal to the King. Early in October, to please the King, I shall myself probably produce a model performance of The Flying Dutchman. Tannhäuser and Lohengrin are to follow—on the same lines—with Schnorr. Tristan next year. [...]
Source: Letters of Richard Wagner, Vol. 2, selected and ed. Wilhelm Altmann, trans. M. M. Bozman (J. M. Dent & Sons, 1927), No. 588