Bravo, dear Seidl! Don't on any account relinquish your leave! Then come as fast as possible to me, where you can cease your travels and live with us. I want your help again. On December 25th I want to have played to my wife my Symphony, which will then be just fifty years old. They have promised to get together a passable orchestra of the scholars at the local Conservatorium. You will have to rehearse them. Also a few adaptations will be necessary. Well, then—to it! [...]
Source: Letters of Richard Wagner, Vol. 2, selected and ed. Wilhelm Altmann, trans. M. M. Bozman (J. M. Dent & Sons, 1927), No. 738