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On returning, after a long journey, to the depot we learned that our train leaves for Weimar from the other depot (the Preussische Staatsbahnhof) at the far end of the city. We reached this depot by car, too late for the earlier train.
We left at 8:37 PM, and reached Weimar at 9:13.
It had been raining more or less, but fortunately was fairly clear while I worked in the garden.
It was late when we travelled, but so far as I could see we kept on along the valley, and the bordering heights were quite rugged.
We put up at the Thüringer Hof. Bertha was particularly anxious to visit Weimar because of the old Schiller and Goethe associations, - which the natives know so well how to turn to financial advantage!

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[[underlined]] July 24, 1914 - Friday. [[/underlined]]
Started out at 9 A.M. Sent out cards to the folks, prof. Wilson, etc.
We then visited Schiller's house (50 pfg.) There are numerous pictures and busts of him in corridors and rooms.
We saw a number of original MSS., among them that of Wilhelm Tell.
In the first ^[[insertion]] and second [[/insertion]] room of his quarters, which were on the upper floor of the building, there is a painting of Schiller by Tischbein (1806), and a picture of his wife, Charlotte Langefeld, also his death-mask, a lock of hair, cup, and other personal relics. The MSS. are in the first room, and most of the others in second room.
There are three rooms in line, and the last was the one in which he died. The are arranged as follows:
[[Image - pen diagram of rooms. L - R, 1st room is study. 2nd room is salon. 3rd room is bed-room. Bed in which Schiller died is indicated in bed-room. There is a small bedroom adjacent to bed-room.]]