My dear Mienel,
The pace is awful here: I'm going crazy; hardly can I bring off two lines to yourself.
Just think of it! Liszt came with: 1, Bülow; 2, Joachim; 3, R. Pohl from Dresden; 4, Cornelius from Berlin; 5, Pruckner from Munich; 6, Reményi from Hungary. On their entry into the hotel, all bellowed the trombone passage from Lohengrin. Early this morning there also came the Fürstin with her daughter, and a relative of Prince Wittgenstein's. — I hadn't slept last night, and you may imagine how I've been bombarded to-day! So the merest needful on the rush! —
Tomorrow afternoon, Saturday, I go with Liszt to Strassburg, and on Sunday to Paris. All the others turn back. —
For Paris, Liszt has invited me to stay with him at the Hotel de Paris (Rue Richelieu). So address me in future: (Mr. R. W., Rue Richelieu, Hotel de Paris, à Paris.)
For the rest, these people give me great delight; the Fürstin proposed your health at dinner. All send you greetings.
Farewell, old treasure; hold me dear, don't let Peps sleep too much, and bring up Jacquot well.
Thy altogether glorious Husbanddddd!
I shall write you full particulars of your journey: Liszt will remain in Paris till about the 16th or 18th.
Source: Richard to Minna Wagner: Letters to His First Wife, trans. William Ashton Ellis, Vol. 1 (H. Grevel & Co., 1909), No. 57