My dear friend,
I find that, with and through Nietzsche, I have got into very good company. You cannot know what it means to a man who has spent a long life in the society of inferior or rather stupid persons at last to be able to say: God be praised, here comes a new type of man, possibly an entire generation. When this happens, one feels compensated for having been obliged to live for half a century in a madhouse. These changed conditions only began after I met Nietzsche. Previous to that meeting, my world swung in no wider orbit than that of Pohl, Nohl and Porges, and I cannot tell you how wonderful this change seems to me. Now, please do not ask me to write you anything further. I believe that my wife has already written you—at least, I know that yesterday she wrote to Gersdorff on the subject of the Pseudo-Philology (dreadful word!). We took the greatest delight in your work and find it a worthy companion piece and complement to the Birth itself. For us, the chief thing was that we were edified by this dissertation and that, furthermore, we have learned to love and appreciate the "real man." Such things should unquestionably be of help to all of us, but personally, I have not the courage to bestow even a glance upon the future morass of the human race. After all, this is a matter we may safely leave to God, and let Him arrange affairs to His own honor and glory.
Accept our cordial greetings and my especial thanks for the great and genuine honor you have conferred upon me.
Source: The Nietzsche-Wagner Correspondence, ed. Elizabeth Foerster-Nietzsche, trans. Caroline V. Kerr (Boni and Liveright, 1921), No. 31