Category: Cosima Wagner Diaries

Making provisions for my departure tomorrow, R. is complaining about it and making more difficult what is already difficult enough for me! But I cannot give it up, and I now close this book with its account of the fulfillment of a maternal duty.  From September 16, 1873, to October…

R. did not have a good night and has to write letters in the morning, which always upsets him. Yesterday a telegram arrived from friend Richter, announcing his engagement; we congratulate him all the more joyfully since he is said to have chosen a good and pretty girl from a…

Walked to the theater in the morning with friend Gersdorff. Said goodbye to him. He found the sight of the theater in the morning light truly magical. The unceasing activity amid all the splendors of Nature has its effect on me, and how movingly! — After lunch R. and I…

Making all sorts of provisions for my departure, letters, etc. R. works, at 1 o’clock arrival of our friend Gersdorff, who spends the rest of the day at Wahnfried. In the evening Bach preludes. — Many things discussed, a new gun with an unrestricted range has again been invented, the…

Lusch’s birthday, all kinds of little provisions to be made, between the Hoffmann capers! He has been persuaded to renounce his participation, and the management committee is to pay him 600 thalers in compensation for his inactivity during the past months! —  After lunch R. told us tales of his…

Anonymous stupidities and perpetual Hoffmann capers—the good professor has now got his brother-in-law to come from Vienna. The mayor told me in the afternoon of the horrible quarrels which had taken place, when the claim of honor had been utilized to improve the deal!! …  In the evening a small…