Cosima's Diaries

Diary Entry of April 26, 1869

Overview

Newspapers reveal Hans did not conduct the latest Odeon concert, heightening Cosima's concern for Munich. Richard works a little, Cosima spends time with the children and the Bassenheims, and the evening brings Apel's Polyidos. She writes late about Richard while both suffer physically, he from a worsening bite and she from ear buzzing and back pain.

Content

Monday, April 26:

See from the newspapers that Hans did not conduct the last Odeon concert. So things look bad there!

R. worked a little. I with the children in the morning, in the afternoon at the Bassenheims’. In the evening read Apel’s Polyidos with R. Till one-thirty in the morning writing a letter about Richard.

R.’s bite has got worse, and I am suffering from a buzzing in the ears and pains in the back.