Does the wicked Child intend, perhaps, to let the Master know absolutely nothing more about her? I should have been so glad to hear how the Meistersinger pleased her; I'm getting half afraid she may be ill! — For my part, I remain here till late autumn (and let us hope, the finish of my composition), Biebrich c/o Architect Frickhöffer; where I have taken a year's tenancy of a couple of nice rooms, magnificently situated on the brink of the Rhine, close to the palace, and am fitting them with odds and ends of hired furniture. My only property, among it, is the famous tea-machine with mug; but I expect to shake down very soon. If the Child would only write from the Green Hill!
R. W.
Source: Richard Wagner to Mathilde Wesendonck, trans. William Ashton Ellis (Charles Scribner's Sons, 1905), No. 134