Friday, March 1:
R. works; he had a better night. I have some domestic difficulties to contend with, but it can all be borne cheerfully when R. is well. News from Vienna that Das Rheingold is a great success, bringing full houses; we find this difficult to explain; memories of Jauner, “head over heels,” as R. calls him, always in a fever of excitement and never knowing what is going on!
In the evening Waverley, and also looked at some new songs by R. Franz, finding little in them to enjoy. The debates in the Reichstag more and more deplorable.