Wesendonck has actually bought the little property in question and offers to let me a perpetual lease of it. He had to pay a very high price for it and now would like to make certain that no proceedings on the part of Dresden creditors, who, it appears, do not feel that they are very securely covered by the cession of my publishing rights, can threaten me, and consequently him. Other considerations, based partly upon the character of my friend and partly upon certain other very delicate relations, have brought me to decide definitely not to enter into this property if I cannot at the same time render myself entirely independent of Wesendonck in a pecuniary sense and give him absolutely binding guarantees to that effect.
I have completed the composition of my first act [of Siegfried] and am thinking of orchestrating it as soon as I have recovered a little while remaining in my present quarters. But I can no longer think of resuming composition here; I have suffered too much in this house recently from disturbances - musical and unmusical.
Richard Wagner
Source: Letters of Richard Wagner, Volume 1, ed. Altmann/Hull (London: Dent, 1927), No. 329