Sorrento: Hotel Vittoria, no date (possibly 1876). Single oblong card, approximately 2 x 4 in. (51 x 102 mm) (sight). Autograph note in French, signed by Richard Wagner ("R. Wagner") on his printed calling card, to Messrs. Meierhoffer & Orney, requesting them to "send him by an employee 4000 lire to his hotel Vittoria in the afternoon until 3 o'clock..." In mat with a portrait of Wagner, and unexamined out of double-pane glass frame, 15 1/4 x 10 1/2 in. (387 x 267 mm).

In the spring and summer of 1876, Wagner and his family traveled to Italy, both for much needed relaxation after the demands of his music Festival at his home of Bayreuth, and to recover from respiratory and nervous ailments. Traveling via Munich, they made stops in Venice, Bologna, and Naples, before settling at the Hotel Vittoria, in Sorrento (now the Grand Hotel Excelsior Vittoria), for a month-long stay. It was here that Wagner worked on Parsifal, and where he and philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche would meet for the final time before their final break in relations.