Dearest Friend!
I have taken cold and am exhausted and kept back by the bad accommodations in the hotel decided upon beforehand. Since yesterday, however, I am well taken care of in Hotel Imperial, and expect to continue the rehearsals to-morrow.
For to-day only the information, as briefly as possible, that it is settled that the royal residence in Bayreuth shall be left for the royal guests; if the Emperor should come, the King of Bavaria would give up his own suite; as for the rest, nothing but the most distressing complaints and disclosures about—the well-known conditions.
This is what I wanted to write you. Now remain faithful to me, as I shall always remain grateful to you.
Cordially 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. 83