Category: August 1874

Wrote to Marie Dönhoff and other letters as well, while the children are in church and R. is working. Received calls (estate owner Rohder and wife). In the afternoon finished Wallen stein with Lusch. In the evening a letter of 22 full sheets from an Austrian, who connects a new…

“You are my lotus flower,” R. says. “You are the palm tree and I the spruce,” he says to me early in the morning. He is feeling well and is able to work a bit. But unfortunately he has many interruptions.  Today the singer Schlosser has come here from Munich…

Taught the children. R. at work, which he finds difficult on account of the many interruptions.  In the evening the third and fourth acts of Edward III. Lovely moonlit night. 

R. today somewhat better, I hope he will not  be upset! —  Germany alone in its recognition of Spain, Russia resol utely refuses—God forbid a conflict! R. writes letters about the major concern, I give the children lessons.  In the afternoon a coffee party at Frau Raila’s house! — But the…

R. very worn out, but he decides to look again at the maquettes, and that takes us up to nearly 4 o’clock.  Alone in the evening, started 'Edward III, the beginning very Shakespearean. At lunch R. now talks a lot about Fallmerayer’s book on Morea, the appearance of the Frankish…

The King’s birthday, he is spending it in Versailles. I go to church and am very moved by the few words the parson says on this occasion, taking as his text the words of Solomon concerning the felicity of a nation with a noble king. — R., to whom I…