[...] You had no need to recall yourself to my memory. I have dictated my entire life-history to my wife. She wished to know all about it. It is written now and is to be bequeathed to my son for publication after my death. Come now, do you imagine that you do not figure in it? The deuce you do! 8 Hind Street? And Lüders? The whole story of you both is set down in this manuscript, from Helsingfors to Toulouse (via Hamburg). And then London? Charlemagne? Where is your judgment, my dearest fellow?
Well, then, just remember that a certain conductor of the old Philharmonic is living (pensioned?) in Bayreuth (in Bavaria, not in Syria!) [...]
Source: Letters of Richard Wagner, Vol. 2, selected and ed. Wilhelm Altmann, trans. M. M. Bozman (J. M. Dent & Sons, 1927), No. 676