Friday, May 4:
Rehearsal (there was none yesterday; I wrote letters, among others to the children, in the morning), to R.’s great satisfaction, as already reported.
In the afternoon rehearsal at home with the singers. In Kensington.
Dinner in the evening at Herr Schlesinger’s with the poet Browning, the painter R. Lehmann, Wilhelmj, Richter, etc.