Most honoured Friend,
Do but send me Herr Unger! I've a good idea regarding him, especially for himself. If I see that there's anything to be done with him, I shall teach him the Tannhäuser for Vienna, where he then might get engaged. Right!
Is it all over with Knapp then? I'm sorry.
Patronise well! We are badly off, and I hardly know where to procure the money for this year's rehearsals! Everything costs more than was anticipated, and Runckwitz [the builder] devours all!
Hearty greetings!
Your
Rich. 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. 62