Friday, March 2:
Continual work with the children; R. not exactly encouraged by the response of the singers who are wanted in London with him. He compares actors to a stag that does nothing as long as it is shy and frightened, but, if one is kind to it, butts one with its horns! A very malicious newspaper is sent to us from England, and there is also some mockery from Vienna.
In the evening we begin Lassen’s book on India.