May 24—Theatre, Mannheim —Lear—performance began at 6 Sharp. Never understood a word—Gr grumbling—by & by terrific & perfectly natural peal of thunder & vivid lightning. Gr— “Thank heaven it thunders in English, anyway.”

At home—Sat 3 hours & never understood a word but the Thunder & lightning.” [MTNJ 2: 85]

May 30: I will say this much for Lohengrin on my own account: it accomplished for me what no circumstance or combination of circumstances has ever been been able to do before, since I first saw the light of this world: it gave me a headache.

Worms (German pronunciation: [vɔʁms] ⓘ) is a city in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, situated on the Upper Rhine about 60 km (40 mi) south-southwest of Frankfurt am Main. It had about 84,646 inhabitants as of 2022.

A pre-Roman foundation, Worms is one of the oldest cities in northern Europe. It was the capital of the Kingdom of the Burgundians in the early fifth century, hence is the scene of the medieval legends referring to this period, notably the first part of the Nibelungenlied.

May 1, 1878

From CASSEL to Wilhelmshöher

Carriage to the Pensionshaus 8 to the Hôtel Schombardt and tho Palace 9, to the Cascades 12, to the Riesenschloss 15 m., including the drive back and fee. Cab with one horse (’Droschke’) to the Hôtel Schombardt or Pensionshaus, 1 pers. 2 m., 2 pers. 2 m. 20, 3-4 pers. 2 m. 50 pf.; returnfare one-half; the driver is bound to wait 1/2 hr. without extra charge. On Sundays more is demanded.

Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe is a railway station in the city of Kassel, in the German state of Hesse. It is the city's most important railway station, as it is connected to the Hanover-Würzburg high-speed rail line, with InterCityExpress services calling at the station.

May 1, 1878

Station Göttingen (424 ft) (Krone Gebhard's Hôtel near the station) with 14,534 inhab is remarkable for nothing but its university 700 students founded by George II of Hanover in 1737. The Library is very valuable (350,000 vols 5000 MSS). The anatomical (remarkable collection of skulls), natural history, and other collections may be visited by the scientific.

May 2, 1878

From Bædeker's Northern Germany (1873)  Route 8 page 79

9. Cassel and Environs.

Hotels.
*KŒNiG VON PREUSSEN, next to the post-office;
*HÔTEL SCHIRMER, both in the Königs-Platz, which is remarkable for its sixfold echo;
PRINZ FRIEDRICH WILHELM;
VICTORIA HÔTEL;
HÖTEL DU NORD;
DEUTSCHER KAISER, Bahnhofs-Str.

The Church of St. Nicholas (German: St.-Nikolai-Kirche) was a Gothic Revival cathedral that was formerly one of the five Lutheran Hauptkirchen (main churches) in the city of Hamburg, Germany. The original chapel, a wooden building, was completed in 1195. It was replaced by a brick church in the 14th century, which was eventually destroyed by fire in 1842. The church was completely rebuilt by 1874, and was the tallest building in the world from 1874 to 1876. It was designed by the English architect George Gilbert Scott.

It is believed that the church is near the original Hammaburg area and that previous cathedral existed on the site. St. Peter's was probably built at the start of the 1189; it was first documented in 1195 as a market cathedral or ecclesia forensis. In about 1310, the cathedral was rebuilt in a Gothic style and was completed in approximately 1418. The bronze lion-head door handles, the oldest work of art of Hamburg, date from the foundation of the tower in 1342.

Hamburg Hauptbahnhof is the main railway station of the city of Hamburg, Germany and is classed by Deutsche Bahn as a category 1 railway station.[ Opened in 1906 to replace 4 separate terminal stations, today Hamburg Hauptbahnhof is operated by DB Station&Service AG. With an average of 550,000 passengers a day, it is Germany's busiest railway station and the second-busiest in Europe after the Gare du Nord in Paris.

From Notebooks and Journals Vol II:
The Kronprinz of Germany knows how to keep hotel, anyway.

The Crown Prince the best hotel I know.

Chickens the size of sparrows - perfect.
["Hamburg spring chickens" which he found "a shade superior to anything strictly earthly" adding that he could not "think of anything that could taste so good, unless it might be a cherubim."]

Parlor stove & mantel combined -- peat. Can't get it very warm.