Friday, January 13:
Since my eyes are very weak, I consult the eye specialist; I have to take care of my eyesight.
A friendly New Year's greeting from Frau Wille; on the other hand, an unpleasant exchange with Colonel Am Rhyn about the sleigh. He objects to our use of it; we give in immediately and hire one from the town. With R. fetched Loulou from school. Richter has a letter from my father, sending greetings to "our great master."
In the evening Gibbon; the field marshal Successianus gives us great delight, and I observe that it would be a good nickname for Fidi. Richard is very much occupied with one passage in his instrumentation; he says he could not endow even the coronation march with more splendor than this scene of recognition between Siegfried and Brunnhilde.