[...] The regular performances of Parsifal in Bayreuth serve me as a school for the artistes taking part, and, as we cannot manage otherwise, these performances will have to be reserved for the paying public. The association of patrons, as it has existed hitherto, must be regarded as as good as dissolved. It would be very much to my mind, nevertheless, if you [...] (in Worms, let us say) could call into being a foundation, with the help of those you think most suitable, to make it possible for the impecunious to attend the performances. This foundation, under your direction, would have to be entirely independent of the management of the performances. It might further devolve on the foundation to support and promote the new Bayreuther Blätter. By this method, which seems to me to be the simplest, abundant moral and intellectual work might be erected. [...]
Source: Letters of Richard Wagner, Vol. 2, selected and ed. Wilhelm Altmann, trans. M. M. Bozman (J. M. Dent & Sons, 1927), No. 735