Dear Friend!
Just returned home, I receive through Frau von Schleinitz the news that a draft for 500 Pounds Sterling from the Khedive of Egypt is on the way for Patrons' Certificates, which I wished to announce to you, in order to restore your good spirits.
Your faithful
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. 39