Dearest Friend!
. . . As to the musicians, it is still a little early! Children, children, I have first other lambs to be looked after!
Mannheim will soon receive a souvenir from Bayreuth and my humble self—who recommends himself heartily to the Five Just Men.
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. 30