Cosima's Diaries

Diary Entry of November 6, 1873

Overview

The morning was spent again at the Kasperl theater with R., Malwida, and the painter Maurer, in an atmosphere of shared amusement and attention. Bonichen remained ill, and the evening included Luther, which prompted R. to praise poverty as fitting for religious zeal. R. also remarked vividly on Fidi’s lively face, comparing it to summer lightning.

Content

Thursday, November 6:

Spent the morning with the painter Maurer in the Kasperl theater again, with R. and Malwida; red cushions on our seats, and Kasperl thanking R.!

Bonichen still unwell, unfortunately. In the evening, Luther. The borrowed habit in which he journeyed to Augsburg brought R. around to extolling poverty for religious zealots; he cannot approve of Bishop Reinkens’ accepting the appanage of a bishop, for the people believe in and trust poverty.

Fidi’s face, “lively as summer lightning,” says R.