Dear Sir,
Herewith I return you your draft, which has my entire approval. May the thing take its course, and the German shew that he understands at last to pay the needful tribute to such earnest and persistent efforts on behalf of so shamefully neglected, and withal so boundlessly influential a branch of public art, as that on which I have staked my life. It is splendidly encouraging, my dear Herr Heckel, to light on people of your stamp.
Of the "green pamphlet" on the Production of the Nibelungen-ring there still stand at your disposal, here as well, a good number of copies for distribution. If you wish it, I will send you some.
As regards all money matters, and so on, I beg you to treat with Herr v. Loen alone. The banker Cohn, however, has also undertaken to provide for interest on the incoming funds until they are required.
With all respect.
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. 8