Dear friend,
Here is the photograph selected by my wife, and your sister also approved of this one. It does not please me at all, and moreover, I wear my hair much more becomingly at present. But as it is intended for a woman, it is a matter for the women to decide.
I have now become a regular man of business; that is to say, a theatrical promoter. The thought makes me dizzy, not once in a while, but every day. We are leaving for Vienna day after tomorrow. Delightful thought! The only thing pleasant about it is the opportunity it gives me to play the Götterdämmerung excerpts for my wife. I imagine you receive frequent reports from Wahnfried. The most gratifying news that could come to me from Basle is that you are well.
Cordial greetings.
Source: The Nietzsche-Wagner Correspondence, ed. Elizabeth Foerster-Nietzsche, trans. Caroline V. Kerr (Boni and Liveright, 1921), No. 47