Category: #countdown1876

Again a very wretched night for R., who has now been unable to work for some days. I in the morning with the children as usual. In the afternoon sent them to the Eremitage, in the evening visit from Professor Schulz, an architect from Wurzburg, who gives us some advice…

For both a very bad night; R. also dreamed that I wanted to leave him together with Fidi, and he could only resolve silently never to let me for a moment out of his sight! — He cannot work and is despondent, but always finds pleasure in Fidi, he says…

Still bad nights for R., so bad, in fact, that he cannot work much. I work with the children. At lunch the painter Krausse, who is working diligently on the sgraffito.  In the afternoon a walk with R. and the children, R. is very worn out, and he is upset…

R. again had a very bad night; the barber gave him coal-tar packs, and these irritate him; he does not work, and we visit the kindergarten, considering whether perhaps to send Friedel [Fidi] there; but we cannot bring ourselves to like it, and come to the conclusion that, excellent institution…

Worked with the children, began W. Scott’s “Quentin Durward” with Lusch. R. worked on his score despite a bad night, he is plagued by eczema on three fingers. At noon Herr Hoffmann and wife, R. has at last persuaded him to make a new sketch! Afternoon party, which I attend…

Did not write in my diary from Monday, September 14, to Wednesday the 23rd. Work with the children, writing letters for R., afternoon parties, discussions with Herr Hoffmann—all this preventing it.