Category: #countdown1876

Various preparations for the journey, accompanied by much indescribable sorrow concerning the two older children! … I make several visits and run some errands. In the evening, R. vividly recalls “Faust”, particularly the scene with the Easter song with the walk and the first encounter with Mephisto, and reads it…

Payment of wages, with ever more certain knowledge gained of the worthlessness of our former servant, in whom we had placed our absolute trust. – I hope that order has now been restored. Constant preoccupation with the upcoming journey. –  In the evening, a singer, Mr. von Reichenberg[1] from Mannheim,…

A great many errands for the household; R. is engaged in a most diligent exchange of telegrams concerning the concert in Berlin (whether Materna shall be included or not). In the evening, music— the second sonata from Opus 102, with the magnificent Adagio; yet it is the Scherzo from the…

R. is facing great difficulties with the standstill; he cannot complete his choir or orchestra. I had to attend a ladies' conference regarding a church carpet. In the afternoon, I went out to the theater, and R. was deeply troubled about the delay in the earthworks; while R. struggled, they…

I slept late and then spent more time on laundry. Overall, however, we enjoy the happiness of being free from wicked people, and R. claims that he wants to treat the new servant like English barbers with their razors—always take the common ones and then throw them away when they…

Easter Day; the children are sent to church, I am once again busy with the laundry. At breakfast, while reflecting that we have almost been freed from a whole wicked family of seven people without our intervention, I say to R. that we definitely have a star that makes up…