Wednesday, September 14:
Departure at 6 in the morning; Herr Neumann, whom R. later calls an Assyrian inscription restored to life, pays - curiously - for our tickets, and he has to listen to many jokes about it from R. We are welcomed at Neuenmarkt with a hailstorm. In Bayreuth, however, the children and our friends. Unfortunately R. immediately has a chest spasm! But at lunch he is cheerful.
When someone mentions the Saxon royal family, he says, “They are all worse than just ghosts - they are the descendants of ghosts.” But a letter from Herr Batz vexes him greatly; he has to reply to it, and thus our evening has a subdued beginning; but spirits are gradually raised and news exchanged.