Friend!
Do I not burden you too much with these proof-sheets? I am sending the accompanying copy through your hands rather than directly to Herr Bonfantini, because I attach great importance to certain corrections (or alterations) and do not yet feel myself sufficiently familiar with the methods of these Italian printers and compositors. But these matters will soon be straightened out, I hope.
Your lectures to the "mothers" made me shudder. But you can console yourself by the thought of one who has had dealings with the "fathers" all his life, and whom he has been ridiculing in all sorts of futile ways, of late. Write soon.
My work is going fairly well.
Source: The Nietzsche-Wagner Correspondence, ed. Elizabeth Foerster-Nietzsche, trans. Caroline V. Kerr (Boni and Liveright, 1921), No. 7