Best Friend,
If — without too much trouble to yourself — you could acquaint me with the Mannheim operatic repertoire — perhaps also the Carlsruhe — from about next Sunday, your news would meet me at Würzburg (Conzertmeister A. Ritter), whither I am bound on Wednesday, and where I expect like news from Darmstadt. Whichever theatre may then come first — according to the attraction it offers me — in any case you will see me soon, and I hope the dear Righteous have not become meanwhiles unrighteous.
With heartiest greeting,
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. 30