O Freund Heckel,
Es war doch gut!
Richard Wagner.
Source: The Story of Bayreuth as Told in the Bayreuth Letters of Richard Wagner, trans. and ed. Caroline V. Kerr (Small, Maynard and Company, 1912), No. 92
Wagner's Letters
Richard Wagner to Emil Heckel
Undated · Bayreuth
Subject
Inscription on a photograph
Overview
Wagner's inscription on a photograph of himself given to Heckel immediately after the close of the first Festival: 'O friend Heckel, it was good after all!'