Here is the programme for the Tannhauser Overture. I have not written a programme to any Beethoven symphony except the third and the ninth. The Faust Overture, which will shortly be published in a revised form, has an intelligible motto. Could you, do you think, busy as you are, manage to fit in the making of a pianoforte arrangement from The Rhinegold, and that without too great delay? It is still being copied out at present, but if you could set quickly to work I should be able to have the first half sent you now. Otherwise, if you find it a burden, which I shall certainly not take amiss of you, Klindworth has offered to do it and he has already played the score through to me very finely.
Richard Wagner
Source: Letters of Richard Wagner, Volume 1, ed. Altmann/Hull (London: Dent, 1927), No. 288