Dear Herr Brandt!
Can you not at last see that my wish in regard to the orchestra affair is looked after by the suitable person in the Darmstadt Orchestra??? I only need this information in order to form my orchestra temporarily, whereupon I can only then take the official steps.
Yesterday I finished my score, and shall devote myself now entirely to business.
Cordial greetings from
Yours very 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. 63