Wagner's Letters

Richard Wagner to Wesendonck family

Undated · Zurich

Overview

A note about arrangements for the theatre: if the Wesendoncks send Heinrich of the Hotel Baur, they can collect Minna too, otherwise they must make do with Wagner alone; he adds, apparently apropos of the English-language Othello, that he too knows English.

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If the Familie Wesendonck will give Heinrich of the Hotel Baur that errand, they can obtain my wife from the theatre too; otherwise they must put up with my single self.

By the way, I, too, know English.

R. W.

Source: Richard Wagner to Mathilde Wesendonck, trans. William Ashton Ellis (Charles Scribner's Sons, 1905), No. 21

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