Cosima's Diaries

Diary Entry of June 26, 1871

Overview

Constant rain keeps everyone indoors while Cosima balances child work and play with anxiety over outside silence. Richard works, writes Dufflipp, and Cosima sends thirty copied pages, but the lack of answers from Liszt and Marie Muchanoff troubles them. Chilly evening Carlyle with punch and Meser's excuses close the damp day.

Content

Monday, June 26:

Constant rain, no chance of going outdoors. Much work and play with the children; but R. works, and in the afternoon writes to Düfflipp. Sent off 30 pages of the copy.

Hearing nothing at all from outside makes us apprehensive. My father’s and Marie Muchanoff’s silence in particular displeases us very much. In the evening, Carlyle with punch, since we were feeling so chilly. Herr Meser makes excuses for himself.