Esteemed Friend!
Best thanks! We are now burdened with the arrangements of our house and our approaching move. My wife suffering continually with a cold, and I—expecting good things and—putting up with bad. I expect Richter the beginning of May to assist me for four months. He will then see about your tenor. . . .
I shall not lack for men, but I have not many women to boast of. The summer will make all this clear; just at present I still have winter somewhat in my bones!! . . .
Most cordial greetings to you and the friends from
Yours faithfully,
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. 57