Dear Sir,
Delighted by your acceptable news, I confine myself at present to answering the wish you have expressed to me. I am quite certain that it would offer a most agreeable diversion to my very secluded life, to take a few days' outing to conduct such a species of concert among friends. Only, for the moment I should not care to pledge myself to any given date, as — after many outward exertions — I have only just arrived at settling down to my work. Rely on it, however, that I will let you know in good time — probably in the autumn; and I shall rely on you for its being something proper.
With sincerest compliments,
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. 2