Were not the overture and close of the last finale in your copy of The Flying Dutchman corrected by a score specially revised by myself last year? In particular I entirely altered the instrumentation of the closing movement of the overture. Last year I sent the score containing this alteration to Uhlig, who wrote that he had sent it to you at Weimar together with a second score, which contained the revision of the rest of the instrumentation.
Richard Wagner
Source: Letters of Richard Wagner, Volume 1, ed. Altmann/Hull (London: Dent, 1927), No. 235