Diary Entry of June 12, 1875
After the rehearsals, R. planned to put his thoughts on founding the Bayreuth theater into a letter for the princes and imperial authorities. He came back discouraged, since there was still no real prospect of building the guesthouses, just as a Steinway piano arrived to underline how much remains to be arranged.
Saturday, June 12:
After the rehearsals R. is planning to write down his thoughts on the founding of the theater in Bayreuth, a letter to the princes and Reich authorities. Toward evening he goes up to the theater. Returns dejected, not the slightest prospect of guesthouses being built.
A Steinway piano arrives, “A good deed becomes a