O friend,
Why do you not come to us?
I can find an excuse for everything—or whatever you like to call it.
Only don't hold yourself so aloof! If you persist in doing this I can do nothing for you.
Your room is ready.
However—or, on the contrary: Nevertheless! or yet: "if it must be"!
Written the moment after your last letter arrived.
More another time.
Cordial greetings.
Source: The Nietzsche-Wagner Correspondence, ed. Elizabeth Foerster-Nietzsche, trans. Caroline V. Kerr (Boni and Liveright, 1921), No. 43