Sunday, December 17:
Coffee with the two Basel professors at 3 o’clock; after steadfastly reading Schlegel’s lectures on history, arrived in Mannheim. Three gentlemen who were sitting in my compartment got out before me, so that R. did not see me; I waited on the platform, and at last he found me! Lengthy joking about this occurrence, R. says I was standing there like a saga, so earnest and long! — Good reports on everything; “I have managed my affairs well”; many good things about Feustel and all the Bayreuth people, good, too, of the King. In the evening visit the Wagner Society; excellent people (Heckel, Koch, Zeroni).