Honoured Lady-friend, Would you perhaps mind searching among the manuscripts of olden time, kindly preserved by you, for a sheet of music At Weber's last Resting-place, chant for 4 male voices, and let me have a copy of it In case you find it ? You would be heartily obliging Your Richard Wagner, who with his wife sends you very best greetings. Tribschen. June 28, 1871. To supplement these later letters, we find the following private dedications : — Written in the pfte (vocal) score <7/"Die Meistersinger : "To his valued friends on the Green Hill, in grateful remembrance, Richard Wagner. May 1868"— In that of Siegfried : " For the cherishing of ancient memories, as also in continuation of the Green Hill library, with grateful greeting, Richard Wagner. Tribschen, August 14, 1871 "— 332 WAGNER TO MATHiJ.DE WKSENDONC. K In th-it 0/"Gotterdammcnjn» : "To his honoured friends ■■! the Green Hi' 1 . fidelity and gratitude, Richard vV, Bayreuth, May 13, 1875. And it dammered after aii ! R. VV."
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Source: Richard Wagner to Mathilde Wesendonck, translated by Ellis, No. 148