My dear Heckel!
God grant you long life, at least decidedly longer than mine, in order that someone will be there after my death who in himself shall furnish a root for further cultivation.
I understand everything, but say little—if possible, no more—about it. I can do nothing but wait until someone from the outside follows after, as I seem to be considerably in advance!
Cordial greetings!
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. 101