Tuesday, January 8:
R. finishes his article for the Bayreuther Blätter. He is well and in good spirits. I have to pay some calls with Lusch, R. comes to meet me, an old lady sees him by the school and calls out to him, “Your dear wife went that way.” He turns into the road to find me, but since I am paying a call, he has to wait a while, and I come upon him with Dr. Landgraf, gaping at the moon, as he says! Cheerful walk home with him.
In the evening he reads us his introduction; he says, “I give little, but I spare nothing, either.” After that, continue with Coriolanus. Hans sends me his letters to Herr Senff; dismal impression...