R. again had a wretched night, disturbed by all sorts of bad dreams, I am very worried about him. Frau Vitzthum comes in the morning and stays to lunch, which is a great strain on him. I walk to the theater in the afternoon, to gaze on it with solemn, indeed worried feelings! —
In the afternoon a letter from Constantin Frantz[1] , after many years—he reproaches R. with disloyalty, says the “Kaisermarsch” had stabbed him to the heart! …
At the same time he sends two pamphlets. The Prussian Intelligence and Its limitations and Jews and the Reich Constitution. In the evening went through a large part of the third act of Die Meistersinger, splendid work, not yet at all appreciated.
[1] Constantin Frantz (1817 – 1891), philosopher, publicist, politician, Wagner dedicated the second edition of “Opera and Drama” to him.
Original: Letter from Constantin Frantz to Richard Wagner dated 3.11.1874 (https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0305-43442)