Monday, November 19:
Idyll is sent off today; the secret treasure is to become public property - may the pleasure others take in it match the sacrifice I am making! R. works, we then go for a walk, quite a long one, unfortunately it brings back the pain in his foot.
In the evening he writes to the mayor of Bologna, who had kindly written to inform him that, though there was much opposition at the first performance of Der fliegende Holländer, the second was a complete triumph.
In the evening the last three acts of Hamlet, during which I felt more clearly than ever before the harmony of the whole work, the rightness of its proportions.