Wagner's Letters

Richard Wagner to Friedrich Nietzsche

Undated

Subject

Telegram

Overview

A telegram cancelling the planned visit to Basle and asking Nietzsche to meet the Wagners in Strassburg on the Friday evening and stay until Sunday.

Letter

Changed plans necessitate abandoning Basle visit. Please cancel all engagements. If possible, meet us in Strassburg Friday evening prepared to remain until Sunday. Address Hotel Marquardt, Stuttgart. Wagner.

Source: The Nietzsche-Wagner Correspondence, ed. Elizabeth Foerster-Nietzsche, trans. Caroline V. Kerr (Boni and Liveright, 1921), No. 34