Wagner's Letters

Richard Wagner to Mathilde Wesendonck

March 16, 1854 · Zurich

Overview

A playful birthday greeting for Otto Wesendonck, sent with a volume of Homer that Wagner imagines stealing out of his library to deliver its congratulations.

Letter

Homer was stealing out of my library.

Whither? I asked.

He replied: To congratulate Otto Wesendonck on his birthday.

I answered: Do't for me, as well!

Richard W.

Source: Richard Wagner to Mathilde Wesendonck, trans. William Ashton Ellis (Charles Scribner's Sons, 1905), No. 12