After a wonderful night, blest with almost ten hours of Goethian sleep, § I wish you serenely happy Good-day, send {schicke) you Schack, || and promise to read aloud quite beautifully this evening, if Herr Otto has nothing against it. t C. Richard, Lope de Vega's Romantic Poems, 1824-8. % A Strassburg playbill, dated January 15, 1858: — Aujourd'hui, Le Foupar Amour, par MM. Bourgeois et A. Dennery. Le spectacle commencera par Ouverture de Tannhdtuser, Musique de R. Wagner. [En route for Paris, Wagner had stumbled on this performance and become the recipient of an impromptu ovation. — Tr ] § In Goethe's letters to Charlotte von Stein allusions to sleep abound : once he writes, " I have only two gods, Thyself and Sleep ; " still more to the point, on two different occasions he says, " I slept 10 hours last night." This in corroboration of my remark, p. lxi, on Wagner's manifest familiarity with those letters. — Tr. || Count A. F. von Schack's Geschichte der dramatischen Literatur in Spanien. [Wagner subsequently became next-door neighbour at Munich to Schack and his famous picture-gallery; in the 'eighties he was still recommending this "History of Spanish Dramatic Literature" to his friends. — Tr.J
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Source: Richard Wagner to Mathilde Wesendonck, translated by Ellis, No. 41