Thursday, September 22:
R. receives 40,000 marks from Dr. Strecker today and offers us all money!
At 5 o’clock my father arrives; R., I, and everyone else at the station. He looks much better than we had anticipated; R. tries very cordially to persuade him to remain with us permanently, and concludes, “But you are exactly like Kohler-you must have your freedom.”
(His describing the snuffbox I gave him on August 25 as the work of an amateur is for me another sign of that perspicacity I always find so astonishing in him.)