Friday, August 4:
Gave the children their lessons. Lunch with Fritz and Herr Praeger. R. goes over my translation of his essays. To town by boat, visit the Lion, eat ices, home on foot.
Letter from friend Schuré, who is surprised that Karl Tausig did not send him a certificate of patronage; R. finds it repugnant to have him, a disloyal German, as a patron. Conversed during the evening. A man in Vienna writes asking R. to set his libretto of Die Braut von Messina to music, short and to the point. Fritz tells the children the story of Käthchen von Heilbronn.