Dear Herr Heckel,
I will send you one of the manuscripts, albeit with a heavy heart, for I am collecting every morsel of my husband's papers for our son. If I say that it is with a heavy heart I send it, you must not misunderstand me; I know no one to whom I would so gladly make it over, as yourself, who have rendered such good service to the cause.
Source: Letters of Richard Wagner to Emil Heckel, with a Brief History of the Bayreuth Festivals, trans. William Ashton Ellis (Grant Richards, 1899), No. 16