Dear Minna,
I have been here since the day before yesterday, and go on to Paris this evening. — I've brought off my business with Schott fairly swimmingly, and tell you this for your relief. Therefore I shall take my work in hand directly, and thus expect to tide over the hard time in front of me from my own resources and in full self-action. Give me your blessing on it!
For the rest, I've arranged to turn my footsteps hither to the Rhine at the beginning of summer and for the remainder of my work-time, if only to have the proof-correcting etc. more at hand. They will see to some nice summer abode for me, and if you don't need any special distant baths, we'll pass that time together. So — until then! — I can't help it! Adieu, good Mutz! Just these few lines in haste, to let you know something about me.
Madame Schott sends you kindest regards. Soon more from
Thy good Husband.
Source: Richard to Minna Wagner: Letters to His First Wife, trans. William Ashton Ellis, Vol. 2 (Charles Scribner's Sons, 1909), No. 222