Dear Minna,
I am on the road, and can only just manage to write you a couple of lines; I shall be on Italian soil tomorrow evening. I forgot to tell you yesterday that Tichatscheck had written me he would allow Friedrich 10 thaler travelling-money. What he writes about the pictures etc. is pure nonsense in any case.
— Yesterday I received another letter from Kapellmeister Esser of Vienna, reporting to me on the second representation of Lohengrin already; he says Eckert telegraphed me directly after the first performance. Did you receive that telegram? I know nothing whatever about it.
And now farewell once more. I am travelling with Ritter alone; his wife is going to Dresden also for the winter. Farewell! be calm, and bravely surmount this evil time! Many best and heartiest greetings!
Thy Richard.
Source: Richard to Minna Wagner: Letters to His First Wife, trans. William Ashton Ellis, Vol. 1 (H. Grevel & Co., 1909), No. 144