Cosima's Diaries

Diary Entry of August 30, 1874

Overview

With the children at church and R. occupied with work, the household settles into a more ordinary rhythm of letters, visits, and reading. A long, ambitious letter from Austria draws notice for its energy but also its lack of discipline, prompting admiration mixed with skepticism.

Content

Sunday, August 30:

I wrote to Marie Donhoff and other letters as well, while the children are in church and R. is working. Received calls from the estate owner Rohder and wife. In the afternoon finished Wallenstein with Lusch.

In the evening a letter of 22 full sheets from an Austrian, who connects a new ethical world order with the festival theater; undoubtedly much of interest in it, but an entire lack of philosophical training. "Go hence, original in all thy glory!" is all one can say, and in this case with regret.