Wagner's Letters

Richard Wagner to Friedrich Nietzsche

Undated · Tribschen

Subject

Telegram

Overview

A humorous telegram asking for fresh Holland herrings to be sent to Tribschen, announcing that the conductor Hans Richter has arrived, and pointedly asking after the Professor.

Letter

Fresh Holland herrings longed for in Tribschen. Would not Marie Walther be willing to come to the rescue, if she knew that thereby she would be saving the art-work of the future? Conductor Richter now installed at Tribschen. And the Professor? Wagner.

Source: The Nietzsche-Wagner Correspondence, ed. Elizabeth Foerster-Nietzsche, trans. Caroline V. Kerr (Boni and Liveright, 1921), No. 13