Be brave, Hans, stand firm and all will come right! Send the letter on to your mother. Read it first and then you will know my opinion. At the same time I am sending Liszt a letter; he will do his part. Come at once, and don't take a long time thinking about it. If you can, bring some money with you for yourself, but if not we must manage without. But if you mean to waste time giving in and hesitating I shall not be pleased with you and you can stay away altogether! You see I have become a boorish Swiss that will not fit in with your rigid student code at all!
Richard Wagner
Source: Letters of Richard Wagner, Volume 1, ed. Altmann/Hull (London: Dent, 1927), No. 186