Monday, December 4:
Saint Nicholas’s Day; snow and frost. R. exclaims to me, “You are a philosophical concept, causa efficiens et finalis, basis and cause of life.” Great joy over the arrival of Anna Stadelmann for the children. Hope that better order will result. Wrote to Ottilie. Worked and played with the children. Letter from M. Muchanoff, Frl. Liszt, etc. In the evening Schopenhauer. Lucca writes that the Bologna company is now going to Florence to perform Lohengrin there. (R. writes to the King.)