Sunday, December 14:
R. spoke much about the bad relations between servants and masters, and said they would only get worse, yet one despised the way the Greeks and Romans had solved the problem. When he is alone, R. laughs, having remembered a musical play by Angely he saw as a child. Seven Girls in Uniform, in which seven girls dressed as men rescued their lovers. His sister Rosalie had played one of the girls, and Weber was asked, by the Saxon Court, to conduct; he still remembers seeing Weber conduct the music, which included a piece from Preciosa.
R. curses the “fire-and-water affairs” he is now having to orchestrate once again. I am still busy on the dolls’ things and do not get out of doors. Our good mayor visits us; he is not in despair, even though our affairs are so much at a standstill. I once again read aloud something from Luther.