[Autograph in the possession of Herr Otto Lessmann at
Charlottenburg. - The addressee was an intimate friend of Wagner's
("Letters to Uhlig, Fischer, and Heine" - Leipzig, Breitkopf and
Hartel, 1889).]
Dear Sir,
By today's post I have sent you a minutely corrected copy of the
score of the "Flying Dutchman."
As this copy was my own property (Wagner had left it for me after
his stay here in 1869) I could not suppose that Uhlig could
expect it back from me as a theater score. The last letter from
Wagner to me has made the matter clear, and I place this score
with pleasure at his further disposal. I have replied to Wagner
direct and fully; he is therefore aware that I have sent you my
copy. [For fuller particulars about this see the "Wagner-Liszt
Correspondence," vol. i., pp. 207-9.]
Allow me to beg you kindly to make my excuses to Herr Heine
[Ferdinand Heine, Court actor and costumier, famous through
Wagner's letters to him.] that I do not answer his letter just
now. His indulgent opinion of our Lohengrtn performance is very
flattering to me; I hope that by degrees we shall deserve still
better the praise which comes to us from many sides: meanwhile,
as the occasion of his writing was just the matter of the
"Hollander" score, and as this is now quite satisfactorily
settled, it does not require any further writing.
With best regards, yours truly,
