Tuesday, July 7:
Did English, French, literature with Lusch, with much enjoyment. R. asks if I really believe that a child of this age can be interested in such things, though he remembers that when he was eight Schiller's poems 'The Hostage' and 'The Diver' had indeed made a tremendous impression on him. 'The gigantic shadows of evening' had seemed to him the peak of all poetry.
Visit from friend Feustel, who has also heard from Frau v. Schleinitz; she is expecting 9 to 10,000 thalers from the lottery. Bismarck is now in Kissingen, our dean is going there to see him. An out-and-out plot by the Catholic party seems to have failed in Munich. The Germans' good fortune in having legitimate princes.
R. says at lunch that he would like to be spared to direct Fidi's studies and to make a new start with him. In the evening Das Rheingold.