My good friend, I hope to see you soon. In any case, Paris is not the place for me at present and I am thirsting for German soil. Moreover my wife's state of health, which is not all that could be wished, makes it my duty to take her this summer to the baths at Teplitz, which are recommended for her on all hands, and, taking one thing with another, it is important for me too to be rather nearer Dresden at present. Though I count extremely little on my personal influence in this affair of mine, it eases my mind to be at hand. I hope the latest decision to start rehearsals for my opera immediately upon Devrient's return will stand. I am very unsettled in my mind about Reissiger. I have not received a word in answer to the number of letters I have sent him. I sent him and Herr Lewy a copy of a number of the Gazette Musicale into which I had put a piece of advertisement for them both. I thought that would not displease Reissiger and might perhaps stir him up at last to give some sign of life. But he remains stiff and stark! I hope you will keep living and warm.
Richard Wagner
Source: Letters of Richard Wagner, Volume 1, ed. Altmann/Hull (London: Dent, 1927), No. 64