Sunday, August 4:
Wet weather, but sent the children to church, wrote letters; R. starts on a theoretical work. In the afternoon visit from the mayor with daughter and son. Explained about Julius Fröbel. In the evening music-making with the aid of pianist and tenor.
Very nice letter from the headmaster in Eisleben, to whom R. had sent a few words of thanks; he wants to arrange a decent reception for R. and asks for his exact time of arrival on his intended visit.
Another article attacking R. has appeared (Dr. Mohr, Cologne). R. notices it because he cannot get over his astonishment that, in his reply, Herr Stade respectfully reproaches Herr Paul Lindau for having, as a tactful, etc., etc., man, praised the article. And R. recalls having once spurned Herr Paul Lindau as an insolent and uneducated person. “There is nothing more to be said,” R. remarks.
The printer Bonfantini writes R. a charming letter which reveals all the true Italian qualities of urbanity.