Dearest Friend!
In order to prove the vitality of our entire project it seems to me to be high time to begin with the advertisements for applications.
In regard to Hey we shall be obliged to come to some conclusion, and this can only appear justifiable when we shall have been given our cue to a certain extent by the success of the announcement in regard to the school.
Therefore—in haste—advertise! or: have you any doubts then: hold back entirely! What do you think?
I was on my way to you, but my bad toe forced me to turn back.
Cordial greetings from
Your ever devoted
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. 110