Tuesday, April 12:
R. works, I embroider, the children play. In the afternoon a walk to the dairy, there drank milk, lovely weather; I believe we shall never be able to live without the Alps. Letter from Herr Horawitz, who says that mendacious autograph copies of a correspondence have been sent from Berlin to all Viennese newspapers and received there with crows of delight (regarding the performance of Die Meistersinger). R. was pleased with Bismarck, who simply ordered his envoy to leave Rome and declared that he would not allow the Prussian bishops to return to their sees if the clause concerning Protestantism were permitted to stand.
Departure of H. Porges.