Dear Friend,
After counting all the chances offered me, for whose multiplication I heartily thank you, we think of taking acoustic stock of the "Flying Dutchman" at your place next Sunday. For this we shall arrive on Friday from Frankfort, and stop till Monday morning, so that you may dispose of me for that length of time in all-righteous fashion. In thankful old friendship.
Your faithful
Richard Wagner.
Your tidings please send me at Frankfort, poste- or station-restante.
Source: Letters of Richard Wagner to Emil Heckel, with a Brief History of the Bayreuth Festivals, trans. William Ashton Ellis (Grant Richards, 1899), No. 31