Category: Cosima Wagner Diaries
Yesterday I had to write to Herr Vitzthum[i] in Hanover: he had notified us of the visit of his wife (a singer) and she did not arrive—due, we suspect, to the maliciousness of the theatre manager’s wife, the composer [Ingeborg] von Bronsart[ii]. — Betz writes from Berlin and seems to have…
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I had a bad night and spend part of the morning resting; when I awake, I find R. at the coffee table, occupied with the Battle of Spichern; he reads some of it to me, then goes to his work. Our sgraffito is now all but finished. In the evening…
View moreR. works; I feel rather unwell and take advantage of the children’s day off work to rest and to finish Prof. Nietzsche’s fine paper. Cheerful lunch, then sent the children to the woods, R. goes to meet them, is pleased when he sees them in their Freischütz hats, and returns…
View moreR. works, and I write some letters, after having tidied things up. I caught cold on the journey and cannot do much beyond continuing to read the professor’s pamphlet, which I find really very stimulating. In the afternoon R. goes out with Fidi; in Angermann’s a stranger addresses the child:…
View moreYesterday I returned home from Dresden; I have kept no diary of my stay there, since R. was unable to accompany me. I went to see a dentist, and also to visit the Luisenstift. It made a good impression on me, and I think I shall do well to send…
View moreMaking 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…
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