[224] Mein Leben, p. 816. This was in the summer of 1862, just a year before the Marie episode.
[225] Mein Leben, pp. 858, 859.
[226] King Ludwig gave him 15,000 gulden with which to pay his debts in Vienna. Röckl, Ludwig II und Richard Wagner, Erster Teil, p. 33.
[227] Mein Leben, p. 861.
[228] Mein Leben, p. 863.
[229] In a letter to Peter Cornelius of the end of March 1864, addressed from Frau Wille's house at Mariafeld, he says that that lady, Frau Wesendonck and Frau von Bissing "love him equally: only Frau von Bissing was lately so very jealous (I had a suspicion of it!), that her behaviour towards me is only now, through that discovery, intelligible to me." Peter Cornelius, Ausgewählte Briefe, in Literarische Werke, i. 762.
[230] See his letter of 14th April 1865 to Dr. Gille, in Hans von Bülow: Briefe, iv. 24.
[231] Kapp, Richard Wagner und die Frauen, p. 222.
[232] He behaved afterwards with the greatest nobility to Wagner, raising by his concerts £2000 for the Bayreuth venture, though his presence at the Festival was of course impossible.
[233] Letter of 23rd September 1863: Richard Wagner an Mathilde Wesendonck, p. 355.