Friday, February 20:
R. dreamed of the Brockhauses, that they behaved in a pitiably embarrassed way when we visited them in Leipzig! Went on the ice with the children; R. in the afternoon to Feustel’s, for the conference.
The King does not wish to give a guarantee, but will advance money up to a limit of 100,000 thalers; until this money is refunded, the stage decorations, etc., etc., will belong to him.
R. returned from the conference in an ill humor; the committee was downhearted, because of the impossibility of keeping to the original year, and Feustel once more talked of concerts. Feustel remarked that Düfflipp had been in a very bad mood. In short, nothing good, and especially no joy. In the evening Gibbon. (On our site they have at last struck water.)