Cosima's Diaries

Diary Entry of September 12, 1874

Overview

R. struggles through a stormy night and she spends both morning and afternoon with the children while he keeps working. They begin a new dramatic text in the evening, but the day ends in sheer exhaustion.

Content

Saturday, September 12:

R. works, after a bad night. “The whole of Nature is fizzing like bicarbonate of soda,” he calls out jokingly during the night storm.

I work with the children morning and afternoon. In the evening we begin [Calderón’s] La niña de Gómez Arias. I am very tired.