[Autumn 1856?] Would it entertain you, perhaps, to see what my Weimar Councillor has brewed about my poem ? Various hints which I had given him are strewn with marvellous fidelity amid his own gallimathias ; which makes the thing fairly amusing.* Much satisfaction is wished you by Your much dissatisfied R. W.
Richard Wagner
Source: Richard Wagner to Mathilde Wesendonck, translated by Ellis, No. 24