Note 58 — Chapter I · THE MAN
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The charge was indignantly repudiated by Davison when it came to his ears. See the quotation from the Musical World of May 12, 1855, in Ellis, v. 128 n. Davison replied to a letter of Wagner's to a Berlin paper (after the London concerts were over) in the Musical World of September 22, 1855. (See Mr. Henry Davison's From Mendelssohn to Wagner, p. 175.) Wagner's readiness to bring these unfounded charges must make us regard with suspicion his unproved allegations against Meyerbeer and others.