Hm! Hm! Hm! Hm!
No letter again to-day!!! —
So! so! so! so! —
Ei! ei! ei! —
Very well, dear Mienel, then I shall simply write you that it abides by what I wrote you yesterday: Wednesday the 19th you start, and Thursday evening I receive you here. I know nothing of Kietz as yet. — Yesterday I had such a violent headache that I had to come away from the Théâtre Français. To-day it's better — I actually slept 4 hours. —
What I chiefly have to say to you, is this: I've just written to Sulzer; if he gives you the whole of the money for the bill of exchange, then take and bring it all with you to Paris; we can make good use of it here. The rent you can also leave till I return; so — come with an immense amount of money, — then it will be well with you on earth, i.e. in Paris! Adieu, Mutz; love to the children!
Thy Handsome Hubbie.
Source: Richard to Minna Wagner: Letters to His First Wife, trans. William Ashton Ellis, Vol. 1 (H. Grevel & Co., 1909), No. 59