Saturday, April 6:
Letters from Dr. Kafka and from Hans Richter; R. is tired, he says he has taken too much on himself, and what he is experiencing is too upsetting. He works all the same.
I go to town, there meet R., who looks very run down. In the evening read more fairy tales; the laughing fish gives us much delight, also the cursing bear.
When we recently spoke of the Joly people, R. said they were both cantankerous fellows who affected a love of quietness and modesty because they hated great things.