Salt Lake Telegram | 1913-08-09 | Page 6 | Wagner Liked Good Wine, but Had Trouble Paying for it, According to Hitherto Unpublished Letters

WAGNER LIKED GOOD WINE, BUT HAD TROUBLE PAYING FOR IT, ACCORDING TO HITHERTO UNPUBLISHED LETTERS Waa Particular as to Quality and Had Casks of Favorite Beverage Lent to Him in Swit- zerland; High Cost of Meat Forces Germans to Diet on Dog Flesh. BERLIN. Aug. 9. Eleven hitherto unpuhlishlH letter, of Richard Wajcuer have come to liht in connection with the Wagner memorial exhibit, now beinn held in the municipal museum of iiiatory at Leiwi. All were written h the famous eomposer befucrii 164 and .t7l to his wine dealers. They iftow that ho lilftil l'immI win., am! tlmt MinrtiincS In- had trouble in paying for it The find letter, written in Munich in November, 1KH4. in typical typi-cal of all. He addresses the dealer a, "moat honored air," thanka hipi for the last shipment, and continue: 1 'I heg you to renew as soon as poaaible my supply by a con-gukrahle con-gukrahle consignment of half bottles of the table wine. From aixty to: one hundred bottles of each variety would about meet my needs. RrardinK payment, will you have the kindness to state your whes. In general it best suits m financial circumstances to mike a large payment on a fixed day; this is easier than to make anailler payments at indefinite periods. You need have no uneasi-, uneasi-, nepa if the reckoning climbs u bit, since the (eeular character of my inapme makes it easy for me to have a large sum at my disposal tfne time " I ft m June, 1867, Wagner ordered IftO bottles of red and thr same amount of while wine, and in November f the . aame year another supply, but thi? pa ta eak, si.- In a iu Lucerne, whirr "nine m hntlle i mmlr mu Ihinhalilv .Imr b tin- .-anion! uriftT. " lo (Irtobvr, IMS Wagnrr wrote to his " mott luMiorutl ir and friend.''