Dearest Colleague!
When I got home, I found the letter which I at once send on to you. I believe we may trust this man, as the English in this particular point are somewhat ahead of us.
Will you kindly write to the man whatever there is to be said? And also make closer inquiries as to his work?
With cordial greetings and many thanks for your last visit,
Yours,
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. 69