O friend Heckel,
It yet was good!
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. 70
Wagner's Letters
Richard Wagner to Emil Heckel
Undated · Bayreuth
Subject
Inscription on a photograph
Overview
Wagner's verdict on the first Bayreuth festival, written on the photograph he gave Heckel as a parting present.