Dear Herr Heckel,
With all my heart I join the Verein; you must remind me of my duties, that is to say, the time when I have to fulfil them.
Wagner would accept your very kind offer with great delight — but, dear Herr Heckel, would you be able to take me in as well? Not that I want anything at all out of the way, but I do not know how you are off for room in your dwelling, and whether your good wife will care to receive two guests for one.
The building of the theatre goes briskly on, and the Magistrates' recent — and most solemn — permission to sell sausage on the premises, has afforded us much delectation. Hearty greetings from house to house!
Cosima 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. 29