My Child, I am still here! End of the month I think of transferring myself to Wiesbaden. — I confess to feeling weak enough to need a friendly word.
I am not pleased with myself thereat!
Yet the Mastersingers help: for their sake I'll hold out!
Adieu!
R. W.
Source: Richard Wagner to Mathilde Wesendonck, trans. William Ashton Ellis (Charles Scribner's Sons, 1905), No. 132