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Telegram from our friend Standhartner, saying he is arriving today with his daughter, preparations and reception. Great joy at seeing this dear, loyal, and understanding friend again. Made music in the evening: third act of Siegfried. To my delight Dr. Standhartner finds that R. is looking very well.

R. orchestrates. I write some letters. In theafter noon a coffee party with the children in the Harmonie. In the evening music, the copyists and a singer from Breslau.

R. works; in the afternoon, to please the children, a drive to the Fantaisie. In the evening continued Pericles. I very tired.

Departure of Richter, the. children in mourning rags, tears and wailing, Rus as the funeral horse! — Recently Herr Hill, who lived for a long time in Frankfurt, told us about Schopenhauer— how every day in the Englischer Hof he would put a gold coin on the table in front…

While I was attending to various things outside, R. had to deal with some domestic difficulties, and that brings us after lunch to talk about all sorts of things concerning the world and the artist, his absent-mindedness with regard to the realities of life. In this connection he tells me…

The whole day and evening devoted to Herr Hill; R. reminds me that I had remarked, after the first few bars he sang in Schwerin, “This is the most remarkable of them all.” An unusually powerful personality with great fire—-in short, all the qualities which R. needs. — He complained…