[...] I am specially commissioned by His Majesty King Ludwig II. of Bavaria to invite you to come to Munich as soon as you are able, to pursue your art there, to execute the King's occasional orders and to help me, your friend, as a friend.
From the day of your arrival an annual salary of one thousand gulden will be assigned you from His Majesty's Exchequer. [...]
Source: Letters of Richard Wagner, Vol. 2, selected and ed. Wilhelm Altmann, trans. M. M. Bozman (J. M. Dent & Sons, 1927), No. 593