Cosima's Diaries

Diary Entry of November 3, 1877

Overview

Ill health shadows the day, though both continue working and the reading of Huxley remains engaging. She also handles business correspondence about a publication arrangement, while his sharp humor turns to politics and the war news, which suggests developments may be near.

Content

Saturday, November 3:

Indisposition and work. R. also at his work. Read Huxley in the evening with great enjoyment. Of the Germans R. says humorously that Moltke made them worth shooting at, but out of uniform they are not worth a shot. Wrote to Herr Strecker telling him our condition for releasing the Idyll, namely, that it should wipe out the debt.