Would it entertain you, perhaps, to see what my Weimar Councillor has brewed about my poem?
Various hints which I had given him are strewn with marvellous fidelity amid his own gallimathias; which makes the thing fairly amusing.
Much satisfaction is wished you by
Your much dissatisfied R. W.
Source: Richard Wagner to Mathilde Wesendonck, trans. William Ashton Ellis (Charles Scribner's Sons, 1905), No. 24