Friday, February 1:
R. had a good night, and I hear him practicing the final words of Gurnemanz. For me this is like sunshine. But today unfortunately we have a housewarming lunch with the Wolzogens, who yesterday moved into their apartment, and in the evening a reception here, our sacrificial offering for living in Bayreuth. Both disagreeable for R., though he endures them with great kindness and amiability.
Annoying letters: from the conductor Eckert, who is unwilling to take the refusal of Die Walküre seriously, and from Herr Voltz: these gentlemen want to take over Der Ring des Nibelungen, too! The conductor Abt writes to Batz: "Cosima has written to me to say..." For this "Cosima" R. gives Herr Voltz a deserved rebuke; and to Herr Eckert he writes that though his letter may have contained a joke, it was by no means meant as a joke.