Wagner's Letters

Richard Wagner to Emil Heckel

Undated · Bayreuth

Subject

Telegram

Overview

An urgent telegram summoning Heckel to Bayreuth for a weighty discussion, sent when the King of Bavaria had refused a guarantee and the undertaking seemed stranded.

Letter

Urgently beg your visit for weighty discussion. Exactest understanding between us indispensable.

Dutifully Richard Wagner.

Source: Letters of Richard Wagner to Emil Heckel, with a Brief History of the Bayreuth Festivals, trans. William Ashton Ellis (Grant Richards, 1899), No. 45