Sunday, November 18:
The “dwindling Batz” permits a better night. Feustel has returned from Munich, tells us Baron Perfall is offering 1% of the proceeds for the King; friend Feustel has refused this illusory aid and says legal measures will accordingly be taken at the end of the year.
R. works. Letter from the firm of Gebrüder Hug: R.'s public threat has had its effect, for they send the copy of the A Major Sonata. In the evening Hamlet. R.'s reading is unutterably affecting, he himself nobly sublime, deeply moving both personally and artistically.
In the afternoon we went for a walk together in the fields.