Wednesday, December 30:
The big girls on the ice, first injuries to Lusch’s pride, the little ones playing with their toys, I at my writing desk.
In the afternoon Lusch writes to her father. In the evening our four musicians; R. reads them his letter to the conductor Klughardt, which is a model of sympathetic openness. A very nice letter from Richter with a photograph of his fiancée, which gives R. an opportunity to state his theory on marriage: the man should be 40, the woman 20 years old. We go through a Haydn symphony with very great enjoyment.