Thursday, July 16 (16th of July 1874)

Wrote some business letters, in the afternoon to a coffee party in Frau v. Braun’s house, for me a somewhat strange experience. In the evening the singer Alexis. — When all have gone, R. looks at the picture of me in his folder, which was done at the time when we were separated: “It is all like a dream, and yet when I think back to the times this picture reflects, I feel moved to tears.”