Dear Friend!
Every evening my musicians are with me in order to be coached in the proper interpretations of my scores, which the singers are soon to begin studying with them.
He who wishes to participate in these gatherings is heartily welcome, even were it the highly esteemed “circle.” Every night something is going on, and I cannot leave the house a single evening.
Faithful greetings from your ever grateful friend,
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. 60