Wagner's Letters

Richard Wagner to Minna Wagner

November 3, 1851 · Albisbrunn

Overview

A playful rhyme from the water-cure establishment asking Minna to send stockings for the muddy paths and a little money to cover his losses at whist.

Letter

Minna, send me stockings soon;

Our swamps are fit for divers:

The mud just sticks to me in lumps.

At whist I also lack the trumps:

So set me on my feet again,

And send a pair of fivers!

Source: Richard to Minna Wagner: Letters to His First Wife, trans. William Ashton Ellis, Vol. 1 (H. Grevel & Co., 1909), No. 44

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