Luck is decidedly against us. No rehearsal is possible today. I sing Orphée tonight, and at the time Saint-Saëns can come I shall be at table.
We have arranged a meeting at my house tomorrow at a quarter past one for him and Reichardt, if you can be there. Most sincerely
Pauline Viardot
Sunday
Source: Letters of Richard Wagner: The Burrell Collection, ed. John N. Burk (Macmillan, 1950), No. 218