[...] I learn through Herr Seidl that you would like me to make a bid for favour by affixing my signature to copies of The Twilight of the Gods, which you intend to distribute to editors of newspapers. I cannot possibly do this. I do not wish to hinder your shrewd and well-thought-out policy in the least, but I should like any favours in that quarter to be accorded in response to the courtesy of the firm of Schott and not to any readiness on my part to do homage, as I pride myself on having reached the age of sixty-two without, I am happy to say, having allowed myself to be seduced on any occasion into making the slightest concession to the gentlemen of the press. [...]
Source: Letters of Richard Wagner, Vol. 2, selected and ed. Wilhelm Altmann, trans. M. M. Bozman (J. M. Dent & Sons, 1927), No. 675