Dear Sir,
Heartily thanking you for your proofs of friendship, I have above all to acknowledge the value of your announcement that you wish to share in the facilitation of my great undertaking. For further particulars I beg you kindly to address yourself to Herr K. Tausig, 35 Dessauer Strasse, Berlin. Until a Patronat-Committee shall have been constituted, he has provisionally taken over the business side of the matter, and will give you precise information as to the mode in which your sympathy may be made effectual.
With every compliment.
Yours faithfully
Richard Wagner.
Source: Letters of Richard Wagner to Emil Heckel, with a Brief History of the Bayreuth Festivals, trans. William Ashton Ellis (Grant Richards, 1899), No. 1