Dearest Friend,
I beg you this moment to get sent here to Paris the two copies I requested of the pianoforte arrangements of my three operas that X. published. I wrote about them last week, but on this point have received no answer. The securing of the French copyright for these operas depends upon this step, and I wish to ensure this result for selling to publishers here, should it come to that. If the things have not yet gone (for with your people dawdling of all kinds is possible), they should be sent by post to the following address: Monsieur E. Ollivier, Avocat au barreau de Paris et membre du corps législatif, 29, Rue St. Guillaume, Fbg. St. Germain, à Paris.
You could perhaps have this seen to by the present publisher himself.
Do not be angry with me. But you are the only one on whom I can depend.
More shortly from Zurich. Here I am always in horrible haste.
By the way, I read in the newspapers that my Tannhäuser is accepted for the Grand Opera here, and that I have come hither for the rehearsals. Do contradict this. Up to now no word of truth in it. I am here to prevent its being used at other theatres (without asking my permission): but what is not, may be. Adieu! In haste!
Your
Rich. Wagner.
Source: Richard Wagner's Letters to His Dresden Friends, Theodor Uhlig, Wilhelm Fischer, and Ferdinand Heine, trans. J. S. Shedlock (Scribner & Welford, 1890), No. 146