Hedda Gabler

From Munich, on June 29, 1890, Ibsen wrote to the Swedish poet, Count Carl Soilsky:
“Our intention has all along been to spend the summer in the Tyrol again. But
circumstances are against our doing so. I am at present engaged upon a new dramatic
work, which for several reasons has made very slow progress, and I do not leave Munich
until I can take with me the completed first draft. There is little or no prospect of my
being able to complete it in July.”