This moment I've received your letter, dear Minna, and am much rejoiced at its good humour, which leads me to infer good health. I meant to surprise you Sunday morning — weather favouring — but if you will and can come yourself, the better shall I be pleased; for even in bad weather — of which there's a prospect — it is easier to rub on here than at Brestenberg. So, on the chance of your really executing your proposal, I shall write you nothing more to-day; neither will I despatch your finished ring — as I should otherwise have done — but simply beg you to leave Wildegg by the 1 o'clock train tomorrow, Saturday, when you will get here exactly at dinner-time, and all needful cleaning up here can also be taken in hand in the morning. Asparagus has been sent off to you already, but I shall see to your finding some here as well. — That you may get these lines to-day itself, I must hurry Friedrich to the post; therefore nothing beyond — Come if you can, and it will greatly delight me to shew you everything in good condition. Auf Wiedersehen!
Thy Richard.
Source: Richard to Minna Wagner: Letters to His First Wife, trans. William Ashton Ellis, Vol. 1 (H. Grevel & Co., 1909), No. 128