Wagner's Letters

Richard Wagner to Friedrich Nietzsche

August 3, 1869 · Tribschen

Subject

Telegram

Overview

A telegram summoning Nietzsche to Tribschen to dine with Wagner's sister and her husband, Professor Brockhaus, with a promise of complete freedom on Sunday afternoon.

Letter

The Brockhauses dine with us tomorrow (Saturday) at two o'clock. Your presence requested, whereby complete freedom promised for you for Sunday afternoon. Wagner.

Source: The Nietzsche-Wagner Correspondence, ed. Elizabeth Foerster-Nietzsche, trans. Caroline V. Kerr (Boni and Liveright, 1921), No. 3