Thursday, July 27:
The subject of our first conversation is once again the audience, and how to deal with it in such a way that the artists are not put out of humor by the absence of applause. We have a very merry lunch with the children, who amuse R. greatly with all they have seen. In the evening a reception at Wahnfried - Herr Schnappauf thinks 300 people, I think 200. (R. reads Hume’s History of England in the French translation.)