My good Minna!
I am still here and won't leave before this noon, because I yesterday slept badly and felt exhausted. . . . I had to fight tooth and nail to put the idea of a torch procession out of the people's heads when they wanted to arrange it for me. . . .
Source: Letters of Richard Wagner: The Burrell Collection, ed. John N. Burk (Macmillan, 1950), No. 240