Tuesday, January 7:
R. surprises me with a lovely writing case from Paris; my birthday is to be celebrated today, and we have invited the mayor, the dean, and friend Feustel, and to them is added Herr von Gersdorff, who suddenly arrives from Silesia; we demand from him a report on Bismarck’s removal from the Prussian government - it really looks as if the Conservative and the Clerical parties have joined hands to restore particularism to Prussia.
Nice letter from Herr von Schleinitz; the reading is fixed for the 17th. Letter from my father, who is not entirely well, but is in very good spirits; he asks for a meeting with us in Pressburg. Departure of Herr v. G., whom we have much enjoyed seeing again (unpleasant Kastner tricks); and of Richter, who is and will always remain the same. (R. gives me a very lovely writing case from Paris.)