Cosima's Diaries

Diary Entry of June 5, 1880

Overview

R. continued working on his article through cool, gray weather that he disliked, since he longed for heat. Their activity was limited to a garden walk, with uphill paths tiring him, and in the evening he read Schiller's letters on Wilhelm Meister, admiring especially the first for its honesty and reverence.

Content

Saturday, June 5:

R. works on his article, but the weather remains cool and gray. He misses the heat very much. All we do is walk in the garden together, but going uphill is something of a strain on him.

In the evening he reads to us several of Schiller's letters about W. Meister and says that the first of them is the finest, so truthful and so full of veneration, and it contains his genuine feelings, which he then modified somewhat out of respect for Goethe.