Dear and valued Friend!
I informed the Burgomaster yesterday that I wished that the festivities connected with the house-raising of our theatre (which are set for Saturday) might be extended to include the highly deserving local Wagner Society. I have it at heart to introduce myself to them on this occasion and to express my thanks to them. Will you give the matter the necessary consideration?
Possibly notice of this outside of Bayreuth could be made in good time through four leading newspapers, and in that way furnish welcome intelligence to many friends and patrons who have in view a visit to Bayreuth.
Cordial greetings from
Your grateful and 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. 42