Wagner's Letters

Richard Wagner to Mathilde Wesendonck

April 4, 1858 · Zurich

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Madame Mathilde Wesendonck. [Easter Sunday, April 4, 1858.] Best thanks for the splendid flowers ! The old plant, well looked after, is as magnificent as ever ; so I still shall keep it. — A good thing I finished the act yesterday and sent it off.* I should have been unable to work to-day ; the catarrh has increased, and I am not free from a touch of fever. Otherwise things go well— and brightly; how go they in the neighbour-land ?—

Richard Wagner

Source: Richard Wagner to Mathilde Wesendonck, translated by Ellis, No. 45

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