[...] I propose to reissue Judaism in Music in the form of a letter to Madame Moukhanoff (Kalergis), who asked with astonishment what was at the bottom of the unrelenting hostility of the press, etc., towards me in particular. This astonishment, which I have also detected as an undercurrent at times in many an innocent reporter when writing about me, shall exist no longer. My first answer shall be a reprint of my eighteen-year-old article, only somewhat repolished as to style. [...]
Source: Letters of Richard Wagner, Vol. 2, selected and ed. Wilhelm Altmann, trans. M. M. Bozman (J. M. Dent & Sons, 1927), No. 635