Cosima's Diaries

Diary Entry of February 19, 1870

Overview

Harmony returns after the previous day’s discord, though Wagner explains that any disturbance between them threatens the whole foundation of his life. Cosima spends the day with the children, then turns in the evening to Parmenides, Claire’s letter, and Arabian Nights reading with Lusch. Practical action resumes as she writes to Bucher for help discovering what is delaying the divorce.

Content

Saturday, February 19:

R. cheerful again; he tells me, “All I now have in this world is my love for you, that is why, when the least discord arises between us, everything ends for me.” With the children morning and afternoon. In the evening Parmenides. Letter from Claire. Read The Arabian Nights with Lusch. Wrote to L. Bucher and requested him to visit Hans’s lawyer, to find out from him what is holding up the divorce.