Friday, November 3:
Letter from my father, also from Herr v. Schleinitz, very friendly, but nothing from Herr v. Radowitz; only friend Heckel writes and says that it is not R.’s task to approach the patrons about paying off the deficit, that the patrons themselves should take this over, settle it among themselves. He is the only one so far to show any feeling in the matter. Otherwise all we perceive is scorn and sneering.
A newspaper reports that Richter received four decorations in Bayreuth, all earned with “sour sweat.” Then in the Augsburg paper a travel article about Todi, in which the reporter suddenly, without any reason, introduces the Bayreuth festival, attributing R.’s great power to Mormonism; in short, the most vexatious things one can imagine. R. is deeply upset; I beseech him to take no notice of all these things and to answer them with silence.