A couple of hasty lines before meat, and after work!
Best thanks for the restored bijou. I have just despatched the first manuscript of the 3rd act to Leipzig.
An old tale: — it's raining!
A new one: — for 3 days past I ride!
Ride!! — It's continued every morning. My doctorkin insisted on it. I hope for much good from it. Don't tell Wesendonck, or he'll lock up all his horses next time I come to Zurich!
Absolutely nothing befallen — barring much rain! — To-morrow, if the sun shines, I'll try and set about composing again. The visit of you two did me good. It was very kind of you. I am calm and fairly cheerful. Be it yourself! Soon more: — for to-day a mere trifle of a thousand greetings.
R. W.
Source: Richard Wagner to Mathilde Wesendonck, trans. William Ashton Ellis (Charles Scribner's Sons, 1905), No. 82