My dear Friend!
I am too tired to come to you, and yet it distresses me not to be able to assure you immediately of the deep gratitude which I feel for your friendship and its extraordinary manifestation.
Your quiet and yet so effective efforts for the success of the splendid enterprise upon which we can now look back with satisfaction, and in all of which you showed yourself so considerate of my comfort, fill my memory as a genuine blessing from Heaven.
With my whole heart I greet you.
Your truly devoted
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. 28