Can you explain to me, dear Mutz, the meaning of this telegram I have just received from Dresden? I cannot make it out, and don't know how to answer it; so I presume you must have written to Frau Tichatscheck and invited them. Please help me out of the dilemma. It looks as if we had been expecting the Tichatschecks shortly, and the wife would like to know if she may come alone. — Please answer me at once, if you know about it. And be plucky and calm!
Thy Richard.
Source: Richard to Minna Wagner: Letters to His First Wife, trans. William Ashton Ellis, Vol. 1 (H. Grevel & Co., 1909), No. 131