Your disposals are excellent, best friend: I thank you for them from my heart.
To enter my fresh indebtedness in a manner worthy to arouse your confidence, I am paying an old debt to-day: please give your wife the accompanying sonata, my first composition since the completion of Lohengrin (six years back!).
You soon shall hear from me again: but first send us news how you're faring yourselves.
Your Richard Wagner.
Source: Richard Wagner to Mathilde Wesendonck, trans. William Ashton Ellis (Charles Scribner's Sons, 1905), No. 9