Tuesday, January 5:
Spent the whole day in bed with a severe headache; great amusement over the fact that I am the first casualty of Schopenhauer as Educator; he recommends spending two hours now suffering!
R. has received a letter from a master cellarman in Deidesheim, asking him to be godfather to his child (his name is Wagner). Herbeck requests Tristan und Isolde for Vienna, and Niemann requests it for Berlin; R. is prepared to give it to the latter on condition that he himself be present at rehearsals, but the former he refuses.