Monday, February 25:
R. works, is vexed about the “duet” he now has to compose. He reads a pamphlet about the Jews, an extract from a newspaper, the Deutsche Reichspost, which the author has sent him and which reveals some not very pleasant statistical facts.
I walk with the children up to the theater, on account of costumes. In the evening begin Waverley. The foundry here is starting work on the bell for Parsifal.