Dearest Burgomaster!
Here are sample copies of a Manifesto drawn up by Professor Nietzsche, and which I wish distributed for temporary cognisance to the delegates who have arrived and those yet to come.
Who can best look after this matter? In fact, how can I best learn who has arrived? (I have also to bear in mind the dinner-table, in regard to the number of covers.) At present I know of only Nietzsche, Heckel, Ballingad, and M. du Moulin. Unfortunately I am much embarrassed by my lack of servants.
Pardon me and remain kindly disposed toward
Yours most respectfully,
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. 49