Cosima's Diaries

Diary Entry of April 22, 1880

Overview

R. was unwell and irritable, especially when the children were invited on an outing to Amalfi, which he took as a slight against his household pride. After a visit with the Meinings and an early return home, the evening passed in talk about the decline of humanity through meat eating.

Content

Thursday, April 22:

R. somewhat run down; the fact that our children have been invited by friends to an outing in Amalfi annoys him: “I feel it as an attack on my domestic pride, for all I have is you and the children, and nothing besides.”

I go to refuse the invitation; R. comes with the children to fetch me, and there we meet the Meiningen couple. He feels unwell and returns home immediately.

In the evening friend Rubinstein and the Liechtensteins; to the former R. explains his views on the deterioration of human beings since they started eating meat.