Cosima's Diaries

Diary Entry of August 4, 1877

Overview

The household remains demanding, and she continues battling servants over thrift and discipline. She notes R.’s satisfaction that a recently successful commander once sent him an anti-Jewish pamphlet, and she later teases him about his political preferences.

Content

Saturday, August 4:

Still the house! R. was much pleased yesterday that the general, Osman Pasha, who has just unexpectedly beaten the Russians at Plevna, is the same man who some time ago sent him a pamphlet attacking the Jews.

When I tease him about his preference for the Russians, he says, “One mustn’t allow oneself to be beaten, it is silly.”