Esteemed Colleague!
. . . Our Hebefest was very delightful and favoured by glorious weather; I—almost thought you would find your way to us this day! Liszt, my wife, and children were with me on the roof. Good spirits prevailed.
May God bless your entrevue with Hoffmann!
Be faithful to me and—if you are always on the wing—don't forget your faithful friends in Bayreuth!
Yours cordially,
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. 43