The children in church, R. on his score, I dealing with correspondence. In the afternoon from 4 o’clock on a great business debate with the two agents Voltz and Batz; friend Feustel asks me to remain in the room. It concerns the question whether to appoint them mandataries rather than…
R. again has a restless night; he dreamed at first that his first wife mocked him, that he then struck her and she poisoned herself, and that some drops of the poison fell on him; then that he was jealous of Lenbach on my account, and Mimi Schl. tried to…
Departure of the painter, who thanks us for the “material and moral benefits” which he received here. R. again immersed himself in the Battle of Spichern and was restless in consequence. — Yesterday evening Fidi entertained us with his account of the 12 boys (“I’ve had enough of girls”) with…
Yesterday I had to write to Herr Vitzthum[i] in Hanover: he had notified us of the visit of his wife (a singer) and she did not arrive—due, we suspect, to the maliciousness of the theatre manager’s wife, the composer [Ingeborg] von Bronsart[ii]. — Betz writes from Berlin and seems to have…
I had a bad night and spend part of the morning resting; when I awake, I find R. at the coffee table, occupied with the Battle of Spichern; he reads some of it to me, then goes to his work. Our sgraffito is now all but finished. In the evening…
R. works; I feel rather unwell and take advantage of the children’s day off work to rest and to finish Prof. Nietzsche’s fine paper. Cheerful lunch, then sent the children to the woods, R. goes to meet them, is pleased when he sees them in their Freischütz hats, and returns…