Dear Friend!
It amuses me to have the Berlin Blatt controlled on certain matters. Here again is a notice, not a word of which is true. This seems especially impudent, considering the tone of assurance, as from a close friend. To a plot, outlined more than twenty-five years ago, I had given the name Die Sieger. Since undertaking Parsifal, I entirely abandoned the Buddhistic project (related in a weaker sense to Parsifal), and I have never since then had it in mind to do anything with it, much less to read it aloud.
Yours truly,
Richard Wagner
Source: Letters of Richard Wagner: The Burrell Collection, ed. John N. Burk (Macmillan, 1950), No. 344