Esteemed Friend and Colleague!
It is going to be serious with Parsifal. I inquire of you if you are again willing to stand by me. If I have the necessary means, I shall show in yearly performances how I hope to have all of my works performed.
Will you help me in this? We have shown what we can do; ich muss noch einmal wollen; wollen Sie mit wollen? If so, then I beg of you as the first thing that you will give me the pleasure of a visit as soon as convenient for you; you will be kind enough to stop with me.
With most cordial greetings,
Your faithful old
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. 116