Dear Minna,
This moment I have received notice of the Berlin tantième, which accordingly wasn't to be levied through the Frommann before: so this piece of pedantry was to plague me, too! It delights me, however, to find the yield is large: it comes to 161 thlr, 25 sbgr., which amount you will accordingly get direct from Berlin by return, as I'm sending them in the receipt and assignment to-day.
Now — since Alwine, as she tells me, has also sent you something — I hope you will get on quite well till the beginning of November. Kaskel, the Frommann's and Tichatscheck's advances, and finally whatever else you still are owing, I shall repay on the 3rd of November at latest. Then I shall also arrange with you all further measures to prevent any troubles of this kind occurring again.
The above as hasty postscript. Now leave my head a little free for urgent preparations for my purposed concerts! May calm take up its dwelling with you, and you be cross with me no longer for this last mishap. From his heart
Thy Richard.
Source: Richard to Minna Wagner: Letters to His First Wife, trans. William Ashton Ellis, Vol. 2 (Charles Scribner's Sons, 1909), No. 258