Spring, the starlings have arrived; R., however, is unwell; he says that too much is passing through his mind, Tristan und Isolde in Berlin, lawsuits, the matter of lodgings, Lohengrin in Vienna, and in addition the American composition is to be completed by the 15th of March! And whether, indeed, the 5,000 dollars will be granted to him at all? He is so shaken that in the evening he is unable even to read aloud to me himself.
Revised English translation by Jo Cousins [© Jo Cousins | WAGNER Salon]