Friday, September 30:
Telegram from L[enbach], the picture was sent off yesterday. R. receives from his friend Herrig the reply that the publisher Stilke in Berlin does not want Beethoven even though, as Stilke says, after the Jewish pamphlet his things would now sell: the Jews would want to find out whether they contained something more against them. Letter from Fr[iedrich] Schmitt, the singing teacher, crude and unpleasant, but R. remains well disposed toward him, since Schmitt once behaved well toward him. R. replies to him kindly but firmly, saying that he has lost confidence in his methods.
R. is intrigued by and interested in the news, conveyed to us by Frl. v. Meysenbug, that Bakunin is organizing the workers in Lyon. There a Red government has been set up which takes no notice of Paris at all. R. feels we shall be hearing curious things from there, quite different from what people might expect, for “France is ripe for experiment.” Lovely walk through the woods. Fidi somewhat better, though still plagued by a cough and still running a temperature. In the evening finished reading Der Magnetiseur; a gripping subject, but the treatment is weak.