Dear Laube,
I would be sincerely grateful to you if you would use your position with the Leipzig Municipal Theatre to ensure that my operas are never again given there in the future.
In the hope that you will have the kindness to fulfil my request, I remain
Your devoted servant
Richard Wagner
Source: Selected Letters of Richard Wagner, trans. and ed. Stewart Spencer and Barry Millington (W. W. Norton & Company, 1988), No. 376