My good friend! The translation of your dear father's precious ashes is to be carried out now during your absence in London. We here claim as a great honour the privilege of bearing the comparatively small expenses.
A hearty welcome to Germany! Dearest love to you and your husband and children from Minna and myself! It was with a strange, new, keenly aroused and most warm emotion that we once more received news of you so close at hand. Still to have to go on writing seems intolerable, and yet it is quite impossible at present to leave here even for a day, since in face of the imminent arrival here of Weber's ashes, and following that, a new opera by Marschner [Adolf von Nassau] which I am to produce at the New Year, I cannot dream of being away from Dresden for a moment. Once more be tremendously welcome! We Dresden relatives hail your coming with a great acclamation! Be convinced that we all mean it!
Richard Wagner
Source: Letters of Richard Wagner, Volume 1, ed. Altmann/Hull (London: Dent, 1927), No. 109