Dear good Master,
A greater joy, than your letter has afforded me to-day, I cannot conceive! Three cheers for His Majesty King Ludwig the Second of Bavaria! After so many failures, joy at last once more! I hope you will right soon let me know the how, and dispose of me in any way where I can help you.
Source: Letters of Richard Wagner to Emil Heckel, with a Brief History of the Bayreuth Festivals, trans. William Ashton Ellis (Grant Richards, 1899), No. 48