[...] As regards Dresden, I have relaxed my condition and have made up my mind not to insist anywhere upon an uncut performance of The Mastersingers, for reasons, indeed, unflattering to the theatres, but also to spare myself the personal exertions which insistence would impose on me and which I am anxious to avoid. This anxiety is off our minds. I shall still see that a good accurate performance is given in Berlin and, for the rest, bother no more about it. [...]
Source: Letters of Richard Wagner, Vol. 2, selected and ed. Wilhelm Altmann, trans. M. M. Bozman (J. M. Dent & Sons, 1927), No. 632