Wagner's Letters

Richard Wagner to Minna Wagner

July 12, 1856 · Mornex

Overview

A hasty note: Wagner is relieved that Minna's health is not as bad as he feared, expects to finish his cure in four weeks and return directly, and withdraws his proposal to the Brunnen landlord Aufdermauer.

Letter

Dear Minna,

You see, I take your groans more seriously than you do mine! I am sorry to have upset and even alarmed you thereby, and rejoice on the other hand that my fears about your health were groundless.

In 4 weeks I expect to have finished my cure, and then to return without stop; for I shall have much to attend to with yourself at Zurich that won't be disagreeable to you. On that I'll write more within the next few days. For the present I withdraw my last proposal to Aufdermauer; don't speak of our first project to him any further. —

Continue feeling so well that you give me no more reason for anxiety.

Thy R. W.

Source: Richard to Minna Wagner: Letters to His First Wife, trans. William Ashton Ellis, Vol. 1 (H. Grevel & Co., 1909), No. 108