Valued Friend and Associate!
I hope that within the next few days Hoffmann will make an appointment for a meeting here in Bayreuth, and I beg you earnestly not to leave me alone with him, as that would defeat the entire purpose (of our conference).
I should like the meeting to take place by the 12th of the month; as soon as he fixes a day, I shall telegraph you and beg of you (to leave) the time free for eventual disposition in this matter.
With respectful greetings,
Yours,
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. 34