Dear Friend!
Tell me in what quarter you want me to recommend you and I will do it! Bülow is appointed in Hanover. I know of no other posts. All these intendants are personally antipathetic to me. I cannot create posts for anyone. I tried to do it for Fischer in Munich, and they treated him so ill that he could not stay, whereas things turned out well for him in Mannheim—why?—because Heckel had influence there.
Really, it only hurts me when people imagine I do not wish to help them. I am quite out of touch with the theatres. What next? Patience! I had no better luck myself! [...]
Source: Letters of Richard Wagner, Vol. 2, selected and ed. Wilhelm Altmann, trans. M. M. Bozman (J. M. Dent & Sons, 1927), No. 708