Your works, my dear Herr von Biilow, have pleased me exceedingly. I would not like to return them to your friend Ritter without enclosing an encouraging word for yourself. I append no criticism. They will get enough of that without my adding to it, and I am the less inclined to enumerate weaknesses and things which have not pleased me, as I can see from the rest that you will soon be perfectly capable of criticising your earlier attempts yourself.
Richard Wagner
Source: Letters of Richard Wagner, Volume 1, ed. Altmann/Hull (London: Dent, 1927), No. 130