Category: #countdown1876

I write to Mimi and make my inquiry! R. writes most kindly to Herr Niemann, and to his nephew Clemens, who has announced the birth of a son, humourously and good-naturedly touching upon young Fritz’s [1] silence. – In the evening he remarks: “I am a compound of sorrow, concern,…

R. read to me the other morning, while I was yet in bed, from Parzival; he said we must seize the morning, for the day itself would bring naught but misfortune! –– And indeed to-day he receives a letter from our friend Feustel, who tells him that the provisions of…

R. had a wretched night, full of disquieting dreams. – He must reply to Herr Scherbarth, the theatre director. I hold a conversation with our friend Groß; fifty thousand florins will soon be unavoidably necessary—but whence are these to be obtained? Doepler must have money for the costumes, and Brandt…

While R. is engaged in meetings, I look through my accounts, set down what has been expended this quarter, and am startled at the sum of eight thousand two hundred and some florins. – After we had breakfasted, R. read aloud to me the fine chapter of Trevrezent [1] in…

Today Herr Brückwald! Herr Brandt could not stay any longer. Renewed meetings. At last letters from Munich: of the incoming patronage-certificates, three-fifths are claimed by the treasury, two-fifths may be retained; main news: free places. In the evening Herr Brückwald; he talks about the Construction Bank, of which he is…

In the forenoon visit from Brandt and the Brückners; the former much vexed at the negligence in the building works, the rain is let in, joiner’s mouldings have been forgotten—nothing but vexations! Added to this the Munich silence, and the tidings that we are likely not to be rid of…