Cosima WAGNER (1837-1930). 2 L.A.S. and 1 L.S., 1871-1889; 1 - Lot 174

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Cosima WAGNER (1837-1930). 2 L.A.S. and 1 L.S., 1871-1889; 1 - Lot 174
Cosima WAGNER (1837-1930). 2 L.A.S. and 1 L.S., 1871-1889; 12 pages in-8; in German. Tribschen 24 May 1871, to a friend [probably Malwida von Meysenburg. Cosima had married Wagner the year before, and they settled in Tribschen on Lake Lucerne]. She and Richard are like two lonely people lost in the world ("zwei Einsiedlern [...] die sich gar sonderbar in der Welt vorkommen"). She thanks her friend for sending her book [Memoirs of an Idealist], which made her understand her spiritual and sentimental evolution. She recalls Berlin, as well as Bismarck and Moltke, and wonders if the goal will be achieved. She took as her motto a word of Joseph de Maistre: "undertake as if one could do everything, and resign oneself as if one could do nothing," and she thinks of Paris, where the Louvre is burning, which wrenches from her a cry of suffering. Nothing in the future will replace what is collapsing there; the stupidity of humanity is despairing ("Paris wo der Louvre in diesem Augenblick brennt, was mir einen wahren Schmerzenschrei entrissen hat. Keine Zukunft wird jemals ersetzen was hier zu Grunde geht; was soll man zu der stupiden Menschheit sagen? es ist trostlos! ")... They stayed in Leipzig with Ottilie Brockhaus, visited Darmstadt and Heidelberg, and returned to Tribschen to celebrate Richard's birthday, to whom King Ludwig II of Bavaria sent a warm message confirming his continued friendship... She asks for a copy of the poems of Prof. Karl Friedrich Werder, whose Columbus drama she loves so much and whose beauty is becoming more and more appreciated over the years... Bayreuth 19 April 1878, L.S. to Prof. Adolf von Harnack, a Protestant theologian, sending him a copy (enclosed) of a meditation by his daughter Daniela, Mrs. Thode, inspired by Harnack's sermon for Easter Sunday in Gardone . Bayreuth March 23, 1889, to Oskar von Chelius. She speaks of the Bayreuth Festival and of certain difficulties encountered, all sad things, but which she has know
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