Diary Entry of July 7, 1873
Practical burdens intrude when the nursemaid falls ill and the narrator must take over her duties. R. works and reads Holtzmann's Germanic Antiquities with interest, while letters arrive from Barcelona announcing a new Wagner society. The day is otherwise marked by routine visits to the sitting and an evening spent with Uhland.
Monday, July 7:
Nursemaid ill, I have to step in for her. R. works; before that, he reads Holtzmann’s Germanic Antiquities, which he finds very absorbing.
Letter from Barcelona: a Wagner Society has been founded there for the promotion of his works. They ask for a concert program and write very touchingly. To the sitting. In the evening, Uhland.