A good, quiet night for R. He drafts the circular [1] to the singers; I have household matters and business letters to attend to, and renewed French lessons for the little ones. In the evening R. reads to me Holtzmann’s [2] preface to “Celts and Germans”, and “Geraint and Enid” from the Mabinogion. [3]
[1] Letter of invitation to the singers for 1876, dated November 1, 1875.
[2] Adolf Holtzmann (1810-1870), German Indologist and Germanist, “Celts and Germanic tribes” 1855.
[3] Eleven prose tales in the Welsh language, of Welsh origin, including “Gereint, Son of the Heiress”, English translation 1838-49, German “Die Märchen des roten Buchs von Hergest”, anonymous, 1842.
Revised English translation by Jo Cousins.