Diary Entry of July 20, 1869
Cosima spends the day mostly with the children, while the Mendes party arrives only late after visiting the riflemen's meeting in Zug. Richard is playing his newest music when they enter. Earlier, Cosima reads Villiers's work and finds it marked more by monstrosity than edification.
Tuesday, July 20:
With the children; only late in the evening the Mendès people, who had been to the riflemen’s meeting in Zug. R. was just playing me the last thing he had written when they came in.
In the morning I had read some pages of young Villiers’s books: little that is edifying, much monstrosity.