Friday, October 24, 1873:
R. did not work today, either. Letter from Herr Haymann: he much regrets. Herr Erlanger keeps silent. R. promises Herr Fejistel to go to Munich with him around November 15. Berlin surprises us with a royalty payment of 254 thalers for two performances in the off season, and Batz reports that a settlement is being worked out with the management with regard to Wiesbaden, Kassel, and Hanover.
Read Uhland again. Recently R. spoke of E. Sue’s book about Joan of Arc, how well the author seeks the reasons for her emergence in the impressions that she received during her adolescent years; her emotional turbulence in this period is thus directed entirely toward a hatred of the English and a longing to drive them out of France; her development into a woman was passed over, as it were, she remained a maiden.