[214] Peter Cornelius, Ausgewählte Briefe, in Literarische Werke, i. 683.
[215] "Keep that in mind," he continues, "and your own griefs will seem less to you. They simply add to mine." Richard Wagner an Minna Wagner, ii. 310, 311.
[216] Mein Leben, p. 848. What was the subject of these reproaches it is impossible to say, as Minna's letters to him have not been published.
[217] It is a little difficult to know what he means by a resolution made "in the previous year." He corresponded with her a good deal in 1862, and we have a few of his letters to her of 1863. In one of these, dated 8th November 1863, he tells her that there is a possibility of his conducting a concert in Dresden on the 25th, and asks her if she can put him up. This letter is not included in the German edition. It was published in Adolf Kohut's Der Meister von Bayreuth (1905), and a translation of it will be found in Mr. Ellis's English version of the letters to Minna, p. 787.
[218] Mein Leben, pp. 848, 849.
[219] See his letter to Frau Wesendonck of 3rd August 1863.
[220] Richard Wagner to Mathilde Wesendonck, p. 318.
[221] Kapp, Richard Wagner und die Frauen, p. 194.
[222] "Eine heftige Liebe." Mr. Ashton Ellis renders this "a sudden love."
[223] Mein Leben, p. 777.