[195] Ibid., i. 299.
[196] The warrant for his arrest for his supposed complicity in the Dresden rising of 1849 was still in force.
[197] Italics mine.
[198] He had just had the Dresden physician's distressing report on Minna's health. In addition to her heart trouble and the nervous ravages made by laudanum, she was now said to be developing dropsy of the chest.
[199] Compare his letter to Pusinelli of 18th November 1858, quoted on p. 97.
[200] Otto Wesendonck provided the funds, giving Wagner 24,000 francs for the rights of the still unfinished Ring.
[201] Richard Wagner an Minna Wagner, ii. 139 ff.; Bayreuther Blätter, 1902, p. 101.
[202] According to Kapp (p. 159), Wagner's relations with her were the subject of much comment in Paris at that time, and were the reason for the Princess Wittgenstein—Liszt's companion—breaking off all intercourse with him and refusing to visit him in Paris in 1860. "An anxious silence upon this affair," Kapp remarks, "has been maintained in the Wagnerian literature, which was the easier inasmuch as all the passages relating to it in Wagner's letters have been suppressed before publication. Later publications will bring to light much interesting material."
[203] Except for a few days, they never lived together again. They kept up their correspondence, however.
[204] Mein Leben, p. 779.