Cosima's Diaries

Overview

Richter writes that Lohengrin will be performed in Brussels in January, while Cosima spends Sunday with the children at lunch and games. She reads Lusch scenes from Goethe's Iphigenie because the child is learning the legends, and Eva's lively intelligence delights her. Tristram Shandy returns in the evening.

Content

Sunday, December 19:

Letter from Richter to R.; Lohengrin is to be performed in Brussels in the middle of January. Lunch and games with the children; in the evening read to Lusch some scenes from Goethe’s Iphigenie (prose), because she is just learning this group of legends.

Joy in Eva, who is incredibly lively and intelligent. In the evening took up Tristram Shandy again.