Wednesday, October 23:
Dreamed of Hans, much sadness in my heart. A little note from my father in Regensburg, sorrowfully affectionate.
R. writes to Prof. Nietzsche, announcing our visit to Basel, and among other things he encloses a little clipping from a newspaper, in which some tasteless extracts from opera texts are quoted and criticized, with the remark, “This goes even further than R. Wagner!” A pamphlet has also been sent us which sets out to prove that Die Meistersinger is a backward step in W.’s development.
E. Ollivier sends a book about M. Angelo and Raphael! In the evening we skim through a new volume of that novel Das Scepter und Kronen.