Wagner's Letters

Richard Wagner to Mathilde Wesendonck

May 29, 1853 · Zurich

Overview

A one-line jest accompanying a few bars of a polka Wagner had written for Mathilde: syrup in return for the previous day's ice.

Letter

Here's syrup, for yesterday's ice.

Source: Richard Wagner to Mathilde Wesendonck, trans. William Ashton Ellis (Charles Scribner's Sons, 1905), No. 7

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