Dear Mienel,
Accept my hearty congratulations on your birthday; you may be sure I shall keep it with great devotion! I confidently hope you arrived safely and are feeling cheerful to-day in the lap of your family. Think of me, as I think of you!
And now my best thanks for the telegram, which I received before going to bed; I have been with you all the time, and not had much rest!
Once more — be merry on your birthday!
Thy Richard.
Source: Richard to Minna Wagner: Letters to His First Wife, trans. William Ashton Ellis, Vol. 1 (H. Grevel & Co., 1909), No. 66