Dear good Friend Heckel,
Now sit you tight!
'Twill all come right!
With His Majesty the thing is settled: the undertaking, in which you play so splendidly serious a part, is assured. Details presently!
I knew that that would all be fruitless: my cause requires a "sapient fool!" — but who is foolish nowadays?
In great haste!
With all my heart
Your
Richard Wagner.
And Zeroni?? Aha!!
Source: Letters of Richard Wagner to Emil Heckel, with a Brief History of the Bayreuth Festivals, trans. William Ashton Ellis (Grant Richards, 1899), No. 47