Dear friend and benefactor,
I have absolutely no connection with the present “anti-Semitic” movement: an article of mine which is shortly to appear in the Bayreuther Blätter will prove this so conclusively that it will be impossible for anyone of intelligence to associate me with that movement. -
None the less, my advice to you is to give up Berlin and go to London in May & June. How you bring this about is of course your own affair. - It would be a fine thing if your — and our — enterprise were to be diverted from its rightful purpose by follies of the kind that now flourish in Berlin.
Our Nibelungs were not made to be hounded by courtiers and Jews - and that because of some totally absurd misunderstandings!
- I am all in favour of London - without delay! -
Your most obedient servant
Rich. Wagner
Source: Selected Letters of Richard Wagner, trans. and ed. Stewart Spencer and Barry Millington (W. W. Norton & Company, 1988), No. 481