Wagner's Letters

Richard Wagner to Mathilde Wesendonck

Undated · Zurich

Overview

Wagner sends Mathilde a lamp-shade, hoping it will cast a rosy beam on the snow, reports a passable night, and asks how "Wahlheim," his Werther-inspired name for her house, has slept.

Letter

Here is the lamp-shade. May it shed a rose-beam on the snow!

I have had quite a passable night. And how was Wahlheim off for sleep?

Best greetings!

Source: Richard Wagner to Mathilde Wesendonck, trans. William Ashton Ellis (Charles Scribner's Sons, 1905), No. 40

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