Wednesday, May 19:
Letters from the children, still worrying. R. cannot work, hindered on all sides. Not even the tenor Unger comes forward. Where to find Siegfried? No one to assist R. Richter gone wretchedly astray. In the evening a student from Dresden; he has come especially to see R., to whom he shows the sorriest stuff, learned from Rietz! R. gets angry and says he should be ashamed of himself.