Dearest Minna,
I must send you just a word, to tell you the Tannhäuser overture will really be repeated.
I haven't a postage-stamp left in the house, so you'll have to bleed 55 cent. for this bulletin, which will amuse you, however.
Adieu, I'm very tired, and have just ordered a small bottle of stout (porter).
God save the Queen!
Your very truly Rich. Wag.
Source: Richard to Minna Wagner: Letters to His First Wife, trans. William Ashton Ellis, Vol. 1 (H. Grevel & Co., 1909), No. 98