Wagner's Letters

Richard Wagner to Ernst Benedikt Kietz

January 14, 1858 · Zurich

Overview

Wagner announces his arrival in Paris by the last train on Saturday and asks Kietz to meet him and engage a warm room at the Hôtel de Lyon.

Letter

Dear Kietz,

I'm arriving Saturday by the last train—between ten and eleven o'clock—at the Strassburg station. Meet me if you can and get me a room, comfortable and well heated, in the Hôtel de Lyon (rue Richelieu, rue Filles St. Thomas)!

Your
Richard Wagner

Source: Letters of Richard Wagner: The Burrell Collection, ed. John N. Burk (Macmillan, 1950), No. 169