Tuesday, June 8:
R. somewhat better; we talk a lot in the morning about Görres’s book, bearable only on the foundation of a Schopenhauerian outlook. Around noon a letter from the children, causing great distress! ... What can I do? Bitterness.
In the evening another case of bitterness: Brandt the machinist disconsolate over the people here, says it is impossible to work with them.