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R. is very unwell; the waters from the Marienbad spring affect him greatly. Miss Weckerlin comes to rehearse, which does nothing to ease his indisposition! — In the evening, he is unable to go to Bonin Künsberg's, where I spend a few hours. Traduzione in italiano di Claudia Bilotti [©…

Fidi's birthday! R. came to my chamber at four, though today the sunrise was but meagre; yet R. hears the bird. At midday, a toast; in the afternoon, an outing of the children to the Hermitage, the weather clears, Fidi’s sun breaks through. — “He shall be a Chevaux légers.”[1] —…

R. told me of the Fata Morgana in Görres — if true, such a phenomenon, the reproduction of an event in the skies, is indeed most curious! R. says that such a Fata Morgana in the mind of a man is the A major symphony from the “Dionysia”. —  Much…

Errands for Fidi — R. receives a charming letter from his old friend Chandon; since the war we had abstained from champagne, but R. recently wrote to him, and the old friend replied with delight. R. continues reading Görres, I with Lichtenberg. I write to the Minister of Commerce regarding Berckefeld….

R. is engaged in extensive correspondence. Among other letters, he writes a reproving note to Mr Levi, who boasts of having secured a gratuity for the musicians coming from Munich to Bayreuth! "If not cunning, then heartily foolish." — The Misses Lehmann are conducting themselves most excellently! … I always…

As always, early breakfast in the summer cottage. R. writes, among other things, to his friend Gersdorff, who had written him a wonderful letter of thanks for the decisive counsel to become a farmer and give up the path of a state career. I work with the children and write…