Dearest Franz,
I have just had a letter from Munich telling me that they have given up Rienzi owing to religious scruples. I want money, much money, in order to get honestly through my difficult position, and am looking out everywhere for a little business. I have just offered my Lohengrin to the Cassel management. If you can help me there, do so. I should not like myself to write to Coburg, where I have been neglected in a surprising manner. Do you know of a channel through means of which you could bring it about that they should buy Lohengrin and the Dutchman as well? Think of this and help me in the old way.
Richard Wagner
Source: Project Gutenberg eBook #4234, Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt — Volume 2, No. 273