San Antonio College Library

The Brown Book, so-called by Wagner for its calf binding, was a gift from Cosima, and used by him, when apart from her, to record his thoughts and feelings about her, for her later perusal. So, in the early pages, he pours out passionate declarations and reproaches. But after they had taken up residence together at Triebschen, its contents became more general--a prose sketch of Parsifal, many poems, drafts of two comedies, a moving memoir of the tenor...