[...] I have no connection whatever with the present "Anti-Semitic" movement. An article of mine about to appear in Bayreuther Blätter will state this in such a way that it should be impossible for intelligent people to identify me with that movement.
Yet my advice to you is—give up Berlin, and go to London in May and June. How you are to manage this is, of course, your affair. It would be a nice thing if your—and our—enterprise were to be diverted from the true course by follies of the kind that now flourish in Berlin.
Our Nibelungs are surely not destined to be persecuted by both courtiers and Jews at once—and that on a sheer ridiculous misunderstanding. [...]
Source: Letters of Richard Wagner, Vol. 2, selected and ed. Wilhelm Altmann, trans. M. M. Bozman (J. M. Dent & Sons, 1927), No. 722