[...] I relinquish Germany calmly and coldly, knowing, indeed, that I must do so. As yet I have decided nothing for the future except to finish Tristan!
The Archduke Max has just succeeded in getting the order of expulsion against me suspended forthwith. I shall now see whether I can sketch out the third act here. I shall then probably orchestrate it in Switzerland, not far from you, perhaps at Lucerne, which I liked passably well last summer. I shall very likely spend next winter in Paris—so I think, at least, though not only do I not wish it but have to force myself to consider it. [...]
Source: Letters of Richard Wagner, Vol. 2, selected and ed. Wilhelm Altmann, trans. M. M. Bozman (J. M. Dent & Sons, 1927), No. 395