Wagner's Letters

Richard Wagner to Mathilde Wesendonck

Undated · Zurich

Overview

Unwell, Wagner expects to spend Minna's birthday confined to the house, and thanks Mathilde for her kindness.

Letter

I am not well, and presumably shall have to keep my wife's birthday a prisoner to the house.

Cordial thanks for your kindness!

Source: Richard Wagner to Mathilde Wesendonck, trans. William Ashton Ellis (Charles Scribner's Sons, 1905), No. 19

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