Friday, October 15:
R. reads to us the beginning of a letter from Wilhelm Meister to the Abbot, to draw our attention to the whimsicality of its style. We go to see S. Sebastiano, and it is R. who shows us the pictures in it, which he remembers from the year '58.
In the evening a pleasant hour at Princess Hatzfeldt's with all the children; while Rub. plays the Meistersinger Prelude, R. acts out the scene between Walther and Eva with Mimi. When we return home, he tells me he cannot bear listening to his own music.