Diary Entry of March 23, 1872
Letters from Schure and the publisher Lucca showed continued interest in Bayreuth, and Lucca was taking up two patronage certificates. R. worked while I stayed with the children, and news arrived that the Grand Duke of Weimar was offering his orchestra for Bayreuth. We took the children to dancing lesson and returned home on foot under lovely moonlight. The evening closed with the first two of Nietzsche’s Basel lectures, giving the day a serious intellectual end.
Saturday, March 23:
Letters from E. Schure and the publisher Lucca, who is taking up two certificates of patronage. R. works. I am with the children. In the afternoon a letter from the conductor Lassen: the Grand Duke of Weimar offers his orchestra for Bayreuth. With the children to their dancing lesson, home on foot in lovely moonlight. In the evening the first two of Prof. Nietzsche’s Basel lectures.