Tuesday 12th (January 12, 1875)

R. is still unwell, scarcely able to do anything without breaking out in an intense sweat. The children are on the ice with me. —

Much thought as to whether I should send the eldest to school when I am away travelling. Wrote to Mathilde Maier. —

Re-read a portion of Buckle’s “History of Civilization”, but R. finds it not to his taste and continues with Gfrörer. (Dress tried on under R.’s supervision.)

Buckle’s History of Civilisation

^{Henry Thomas Buckle (1821-62), the English historian, originally intended his work to cover the whole of Europe, but it ended up restricted to England; the 2 vols. appeared in 1857 and 1861.}

^{Revised English translation by Jo Cousins.}