Saturday, June 18:
R. remarks in the morning: “It is really very curious that King Jerome offered Beethoven a pension, and only then did the Austrian nobles fix his allowance. I should like to point that out one day in order to show that the most favorable opportunity for German talent would still be afforded by Frenchmen or Russians coming to rule over us; they would at least think it worthwhile to inquire about a man of note.” R. works; letter from Catulle Mendès, who tells R. they will not be able to resist the temptation of seeing Die Walküre in Munich; R. replies that in that case he (R.) must resist the temptation of seeing them at Tribschen. Toward evening, visit with R. the Pension Stutz, a property close by; sad and melancholy impression, much more cut off from the world than Tribschen.