Cosima's Diaries

Diary Entry of July 4, 1877

Overview

Good news arrived on two fronts: a sizable contribution reduced the financial shortfall, and the appeal court ruled in his favor in the dispute with Fiirstner. After a round of farewells and one last walk, the evening ended in social conversation that included a blunt remark about Germany, Jews, and the French.

Content

Wednesday, July 4:

Letter from Herr Gross: Count Magnis Ullersdorff has sent 5,000 marks toward the deficit. Besides that, news from Herr Simson that R. has won his case against Herr Fürstner in the court of appeal as well. Both very pleasing.

Final walk to Lindenbach after receiving farewell visits of all kinds. In the evening Count Pourtalès and Frau Wesendonck with her daughter; R. says to the Count, among other things: “What are we Germans? We don’t know; all we know is that we are stripped bare by the Jews and clothed by the French.”