Cosima WAGNER. 2 L.A.S. "Cosima" and one L.A., [Berlin 1863], to "Clairon" [Claire de CHARNACÉ, her half-sister]; 4 pages in-8 each, filled with small handwriting. September 19. She talks about her problems with moving in, her readings, from which she excludes Daniel Stern (their mother Marie d'Agoult), Goethe's letters to Baroness von Stein on which she is going to write an article for the Revue germanique... October 29. About the illness of her daughter Daniella, the Bojanowski couple... She does not think of coming to Paris: " with the success of our musical institute I see coming a master's degree of some kind, and then farewell to any change of scenery, farewell even to any excursion, because we will have a lot of work to do " .... Then she speaks about the opera, disdaining "even the pretty Patti on whom flowers and laurels rain. Perhaps my ears are too close to my brain"... She humorously recounts the intrigues of the actress Lilla von Buljowsky... November 12. After having spoken about fashion, she evokes politics and Napoleon III: "your emperor does not let the harassing chambers relax, he opposes the princely congress, if I am not fooled, the war is coming fast. The speech to the chambers and the invitation to the congress are two acts of a singular scope of thought and expression, and it is my opinion that for the fourth or fifth time he will put Europe in it. Whether one accepts or refuses, he has a good chance, whether he is the only one who wants the reform of the world, or whether he is the first one to have asked for it, the game is equally beautiful for him, and he is seen as the apostle or the promoter of progress. Here we are not so finicky, William's speech was both insignificant and hurtful; the animadversion is at its height with that no indignation, no flames. Only the question of the worker advances irresistibly and threatens to overflow everything, it is to socialism that belongs the last word, will it be possible that this word is not bloody? She describes to finish the show of the tamer BATTY...