My dear Fräulein,
You are not the only person who can create Patrons. I can also do this—the money you saved by economizing, I earned by conducting, and I should like to know which one of us perspired the more?
At all events, when the time arrives, you will come to Bayreuth as a full-fledged patron. Cordial greetings from my wife.
Source: The Nietzsche-Wagner Correspondence, ed. Elizabeth Foerster-Nietzsche, trans. Caroline V. Kerr (Boni and Liveright, 1921), No. 37