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Wrote some letters, much catching up to be done! Friend Niemann to lunch, R. very worn out, but rallies to defend Schiller, on whom N. cast aspersions, and also to impart to the sceptic his feelings about immortality. When he asks him whether in his enthusiasm for the beautiful he…
View moreR. very much indisposed, has to remain in bed until noon. Herr Niemann goes hunting. In the afternoon Herr Voltz, whom R. has to take severely to task, for he has had the impertinence to demand a Prussian decoration for a possible consent to do Tristan und Isolde Also they…
View moreR. unfortunately not well, he cannot stand this constant disturbance; at lunch, to which we had invited Herr Niemann, he felt so indisposed that he had to leave the table. I walk up to the theater with our singer and the children. In the evening R. feels somewhat recovered. Frl….
View moreAt last able again to work a little with the children. Invited to a coffee party, and having gone there, I am fetched away because Herr Niemann[i] has arrived. His admiration for our house gives R. great pleasure, and the way in which he treats Frl. Brandt is so curious that we…
View moreTidied up papers, dictated to Lulu a letter to her father. In the afternoon and in the morning R. works with Frl. Brandt[i] and the singer Kneiss[ii]. In the evening the former delighted us with her Waltraute, whose narration moves us all deeply. But the good lady does not seem best…
View moreHad to receive many visitors; in the afternoon shaken to my very core by a letter from my father, enclosing one from Hans; Hans complains of the overexcited state of his nerves, he lost both his memory and his strength, his cure in Salzungen was a failure, dismal symptoms of…
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