Cosima's Diaries

Diary Entry of August 10, 1869

Overview

Cosima is unwell but tends the children while Hermine is confined to bed, then writes Claire and reads Wanderjahre. Richard fetches medicine labeled for 'Mme Wagner,' joking that the apothecary has accomplished what state, church, and society cannot. He continues copying for the vanished, silent King.

Content

Tuesday, August 10:

I am unwell, but can see to the children, since Hermine is in bed. Wrote to Claire. Afterward read the Wanderjahre.

In the evening R. fetches the medicine prescribed for me; on the bottle is written "For Mme Wagner." You see, says R., what state, church, and society are unable to do, the apothecary puts right.

R. at his copying for the King, about whom nothing is heard and who seems literally to have vanished.