Tuesday, September 21:
Many business matters, the Americans still very importunate, a new patron, Jacques Blumenthal.
At lunch the medal maker Scharff, who relates many things about the wretched conditions in Austria—what is an Austrian fighting for when he goes to war? In Hungary all German-speaking people are dismissed! In Bohemia three Jews are at the head of the German party. “One always, like Goethe and Schiller,” says R., “falls back on not wanting to know what is going on and not bothering one’s head about the political mess.”
The rebellion of the Bocchesi in 1869, quelled in Austria with payments of 30 florins per person! ... Walked to the theater.