Note 77 — Chapter I · THE MAN

Mein Leben had not been given to the world at the time Mr. Ellis wrote; but in the Richard Wagner und die Tierwelt of the well-known Wahnfried partisan Hans von Wolzogen occurs this passage: "but the little dog died suddenly in the confusion of Paris, perhaps poisoned." (Quoted in Glasenapp, iii. 330.) These last words are probably due either to a private reading of the then unpublished Mein Leben, or to conversations in the Wagner circle. Again there is no evidence: we are simply left with Wagner's own words in Mein Leben and the two Wesendonck letters.