Dear Child,
A mighty big letter — to which I have nothing of account to add for the moment — went off to your address at Zurich a few days since. As you are stopping away so much longer, please let it be sent on to you (not that it's very amusing).
A thousand greetings!
Your R. W.
Source: Richard Wagner to Mathilde Wesendonck, trans. William Ashton Ellis (Charles Scribner's Sons, 1905), No. 144