Sedan celebration [1]—very wet! The children illumine their little chamber in the adjoining house, and delight us continually with their cheerfulness. Walk with R. up to the theatre; in the evening San Marte on “Parcival” [2]. R. arrives at the conviction that the formation of the Grail stood wholly apart from the…
Fair autumnal weather after a heavy thunderstorm. R. attends solely to correspondence, and I to friendship. On Monday the 30th, our excellent friends dine with us once more, and on Tuesday the 31st they depart, to our great sorrow. – In the afternoon, beneath gloomy skies, we walk with all…
R. drafts and completes his circular;[1] as is usual, I spend morning and afternoon with our friend [Marie von Schleinitz]. R. maintains a correspondence with Dresden, they desire “Tristan and Isolde”, he demands the royalties, they forgo them. In the evening our friends are with us. [1] Announcement of the 1876…
The children are ever at their lessons with their new governess, the granddaughter of Rector Baumgarten-Crusius, [1] whom R. had known at the Kreuzschule, and whose manner pleases me exceedingly. – at midday, Mr. Schuré and Mr. Lang of Boston; we visit the theatre with them! in the evening, Mr….
early in the morning I write to Richter with full heart, setting before him that his feeling toward me were of no concern, but that, unless he sincerely repents towards R. for having let himself be led astray by idle talk, he shall never again have anything to do with…
