Wednesday, December 9:
Worked with Loldchen while Herr Sauter, the photographer and painter, was making a drawing of the salon and hall below for the King.
R. is greatly annoyed at a telegram from the secretary of the Viennese Academic Society, who reports that R. is giving a concert in Vienna on the 6th, and inquires whether R. is really coming; also that they have engaged Dr. Glatz, of whom we so far know nothing. R. cables to Richter and forbids Glatz’s participation; in the evening Richter replies that it is all a misunderstanding.
In the afternoon Christmas errands. In the evening we get J. Rubinstein to play the Variations, after R. has worked out with Herr Feustel and the lawyer Skutsch a final agreement with Voltz and Batz.
It is becoming increasingly clear that the two gentlemen have abused R.’s trust in a most shameless manner, and Herr Feustel, whose prudence and loyalty R. again has reason to appreciate very clearly, advises R. no longer to correspond with them directly.
The Variations again delight us, the product of pure genius.