Cosima WAGNER. 8 L.A.S. "Cosima", Munich then Tribschen 1868 - Lot 128

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Cosima WAGNER. 8 L.A.S. "Cosima", Munich then Tribschen 1868 - Lot 128
Cosima WAGNER. 8 L.A.S. "Cosima", Munich then Tribschen 1868, [to Claire de CHARNACÉ, her half-sister]; 8 pages in-12 and 18 pages and a quarter in-8 filled with small handwriting, 2 envelopes (cut at the bottom of a blank sheet). long and interesting letters about their mother Marie d'Agoult, and about Wagner, Liszt, and Bulow [Munich] January 31. About the framing of a photograph of the Medici tombs by Michelangelo. 31 March. She asks Claire to choose a "mantilla hat" for her... 24 April. She found a mantilla hat in Munich. She had a lot of trouble with her sick husband: "we feared typhoid fever; the danger has passed, but he is in a state of prostration that will not allow him, I fear, to resume his work for some time. The thought of missing his post agitates and irritates him to the point that the doctor does not know if he should keep him any longer. Besides, I have my own story about being a nanny (everyone has their own). You know, or you don't know, that I bring up my children according to the Fröbel method, the excellent results of the education are worth the foundation of a Kindergarten in Munich, for which my kindergarten teacher is taken away, and here I am with my four children, looking for the philosopher's stone. She worries about the "cerebral state" of Daniel Stern [Marie d'Agoult] .... She has become "very monarchical - not for the sake of King Ludwig of Bavaria, I beg you to believe, but because I respect more and more what connects us with the past, and because I would like to see everything that once had life force survive. It is one of the most touching points of Buddhism that the non-annihilation of the gods of Bramanism, all of them inferior to the redeemer-god. This stupid mania to undermine the revolutionaries of 93, made me take in horror all this brutal time "... April 29. "Thank you for the Thousand and One Nights that I am waiting for, as for the photograph of the Leda, I confess that I would prefer to still watch for the chance to catch the lithograph"... May 27. "When my brat is here, I sometimes wish to be delivered of it, now that she is far away I feel deprived of it; one is thus built"... She asks for Claire's impression of the Salon. "The more I withdraw from men, the more things interest me. I would gladly go to Baden, if I weren't afraid of the world one meets there. Parisian life, its luxury and elegance, have become so foreign to me that I would feel like a peasant on the Danube"... The Catholic party undertakes in Austria "a crusade against the Jews. I confess that I believe the party to be stronger than ever, and that I only know that Northern Germany is capable of putting a stop to it; but as I consider that it is to the Jesuit brothers in the first place that we owe the ruin of Spain, Italy, Austria, and the lowering of the intellectual level of France "... She relates the festivities for yesterday's fiftieth anniversary of the Constitution, and shows herself to be worried about the health of her husband. "As for the singing masters, God hear you; for me, I hardly believe in the immediate success of such an exceptional work and besides, the first concern is the success of the staging"... [Tribschen August 24]. She urges Claire to come to Lucerne and Tribschen: "It is very nice here, you know that I live on the first floor of the house where Wagner lives on the second floor, so that we usually meet for dinner, besides everyone is as free as possible, as I lie down with the chickens, the evenings do not oblige to anything"... She plans a trip to Italy. Like Claire, she does not believe "in the duration of the Bonaparte regime in France, but I wonder if we will gain much from a change"... Then on Wagner: "It is Pasdeloup who has Rienzi and who will very probably have Lohengrin if Perrin does not decide. In the meantime, work is also being done in Italy, and this whole movement in favor of Wagner is one of the most singular things I have seen"... [End of November]. She is doing well, and leads a cloistered life in Tribschen: "I get up at seven o'clock, I have breakfast at eight with the little ones after having cleaned them from head to toe, at ten o'clock we go for a walk in the garden, at eleven o'clock there is milk from one, at noon I put her to bed, then I put on a piece of clothing to have dinner at one o'clock; at two o'clock I go out again with the little ones, at four o'clock we have a snack and then play, until seven o'clock, when I put them to bed and I fall down with fatigue in my armchair. However I am in a good mood, or rather a sweet mood, and I like these days which follow one another and are similar, and isolate me absolutely from a world which has inspired me only bitterness". She asks Claire to buy toys for the children for Christmas... December 22. "All is well in Munich; Loulou has been ill, but she has recovered. My father [LISZT] gives an appointment to the baron [
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