From the profoundest depths of my soul I express to you, dearest friend, my warmest and most sincere congratulations on a day of such significance to all Germany. Blessing and prosperity to the great undertaking next year.
To-day more than ever, I am with you in spirit.
Ludwig.
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. 27