Dear friend,
It amuses me to put your Berlin journal in order on certain matters. Here is another report, not a word of which is true, - which looks particularly impertinent given the tone of great assurance, as though the report were that of a close friend. More than 25 years ago I sketched out a scenario on a single side of paper and gave it the name: the Victors. Since conceiving Parsifal, I have altogether abandoned this Buddhist project - which is related to the former only in a weaker sense - , and since that time have given no further thought to elaborating the sketch, still less of reading it aloud.
Your old friend,
R. Wagner
Source: Selected Letters of Richard Wagner, trans. and ed. Stewart Spencer and Barry Millington (W. W. Norton & Company, 1988), No. 495