Esteemed Sir!
I return at once your outline, of which I quite approve. May the matter now take its course and the Germans show that they at least understand how to bestow the proper attention upon such serious and persistent efforts for an ignominiously neglected branch of public art, and yet one of such unlimited possibilities as this to which I am devoting my life. It is encouraging to meet with a man of your stamp, Herr Heckel!
A great number of copies of the green pamphlet on the performance of the Ring of the Nibelung are at your disposal for the purpose of distribution. If you like, I will send you some.
In regard to money matters I beg of you to keep in touch with Herr v. Loen. The banker Cohn has also agreed to see that the various sums are placed at interest until they need to be used.
With expressions of my esteem,
Yours respectfully,
Richard Wagner.
Source: The Story of Bayreuth as Told in the Bayreuth Letters of Richard Wagner, trans. and ed. Caroline V. Kerr (Small, Maynard and Company, 1912), No. 7