A bad night and a most miserable day with the extraction of the tooth; leeches applied, some relief. R. had to receive Fräulein Scheffsky, who has been especially recommended to him by Hofrat Düfflipp as a modest and diligent girl. Her voice and person are pleasing; he engages her for Sieglinde; she complains of her position in Munich—only the King, she says, is favourably disposed toward her; he has even sent her the testimonial of the Kapellmeister and the Intendant, which declared “that nothing would come of her,” that she might learn to know her friends.
Revised English translation by Jo Cousins [© Jo Cousins | WAGNER Salon]
Further Documents:
eigenhändiger Brief von Franz von Jauner (Direktion der Kaiserlich Königlichen Hofoper Wien) an Richard Wagner
Nachlass Richard und Cosima Wagner. Jauner, Franz von: eigenhändiger Brief von Franz von Jauner (Direktion der Kaiserlich Königlichen Hofoper Wien) an Richard Wagner. Wien , 08.05.[1876]