Dear Mietz, I leave here Tuesday the 9th, and — as I see you cannot come half-way — I shall be with you at Zurich Wednesday evening. —
Nobody takes a cure here for more than 3 weeks, and all were astonished at my having been ordered 4. The water is extraordinarily powerful; I've been stopped up for several days, and my stomach feels bad. Moreover, the place itself is beginning to be unendurable to me, the arrangements are too disgraceful; for want of convenience, etc., a deal of what the Doctor ordered me I cannot follow out at all. In short, it's high time I thought of turning home. The usual 3 weeks' cure expires tomorrow; I am throwing in a couple of days, but Tuesday I depart — as said — and hope to find you better on Wednesday evening than you write me you unfortunately are at present. My last letter I addressed to Zurich; I hope it was sent after you. So nothing is to come of the rendezvous at Chur etc. proposed therein; perhaps R. is right. We'll soon replace it by some pleasant excursion or other, that Mathilde also may still get a little to see.
What more should I write you, seeing that I soon shall be able to talk with you? Besides, I've had no more news at all of late; I know just nothing, excepting that it's odious here when one makes no excursions, and those refuse to agree with the cure.
Write me another once, that you have received this letter, and address to Chur, poste restante; thus I shall find it waiting Tuesday evening. Farewell, old Mietzel! Give me a good welcome. Adieu; shake Peps's paw. — Adieu, auf Wiedersehen Wednesday! —
Thy RRRrrrr!
I don't require money.
Source: Richard to Minna Wagner: Letters to His First Wife, trans. William Ashton Ellis, Vol. 1 (H. Grevel & Co., 1909), No. 52