Cosima's Diaries

Diary Entry of December 8, 1874

Overview

Work with the child is paired with R.'s ambitious plans for an educational reform that he wants to bring before the minister and support with a prize. Later, Schopenhauer provides intellectual delight, though the evening is shadowed by troubling news from Leipzig about Doris burdening the family there.

Content

Tuesday, December 8:

Worked with Loldi. At lunch R. says that on Fidi’s account he has drafted a complete educational plan; he would like to send it to Falk, the Minister of Education, and see a large prize offered for working it out in detail. “If the minister does not do something about it, then very well, I shall pay for the prize myself.”

In the evening, Schopenhauer’s Parerga; we read the description “The Philosopher” with delight.

We hear bad things about the family in Leipzig—our niece Doris is proving a real burden to the Kolb family in Viersen, the Feustels tell us.