Allervorzüglichster Patronenlader!
Otherwise it is going so-so!—A cantor, Fischer, in Zwickau, has recently collected six and three-quarter Patrons' Certificates, sent six thousand marks, with the inquiry if this sum would entitle him to a free seat (!!!). Tannhäuser here the 21st of this month (!!)—I have none of the rehearsal plans with me; have one sent you from Feustel or Fischer (“Nibelung Kanzlei”).
Many cordial greetings from your harassed
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. 84