[244] Ausgewählte Briefe, i. 748, 749.
[245] He had just returned from the meeting with Frau von Bissing, at which she had undertaken to provide for him.
[246] Mein Leben, p. 862.
[247] The Putzmacherin letters extend into the Lucerne period of 1886-7.
[248] Röckl, Ludwig II und Richard Wagner, Erster Theil, p. 151.
[249] The relations between Wagner and the King's ministers were already embittered at this time, and the King granted the loan against their wish. The Court Treasurer objecting to sending the money by a servant, Cosima had to call for it personally. He gave her the whole of the sum in silver coins, which she had to carry away in sacks, his object being to render the transport of it as public as possible, and so arouse popular feeling against the composer. The loan was repaid to the Munich Treasury by Wagner's heirs. See Röckl, op. cit., p. 197.
[250] See Ludwig Nohl, Neues Skizzenbuch, p. 146.
[251] Röckl, op. cit., pp. 245, 246.
[252] Weissheimer, Erlebnisse mit Richard Wagner, Franz Liszt und vielen anderen Zeitgenossen, 3rd ed., 1898, pp. 229, 230.
[253] Glasenapp, Das Leben Richard Wagners, vi. 154, 155.