The whole day and evening devoted to Herr Hill; R. reminds me that I had remarked, after the first few bars he sang in Schwerin, “This is the most remarkable of them all.” An unusually powerful personality with great fire—-in short, all the qualities which R. needs. — He complained about Prussia and the Prussian Court, saying that, when he had once sung some songs by Schumann there, the German Empress had come up to him and asked, “Do you not sing any of Gounod’s songs?” He sings to us from Lohengrin and Hollander—
tells us that the Court in Schwerin is very well disposed toward both R. and me, also talks about the sullenness of Frau Schnorr, whom he met in Brunswick. On the other hand, Frl. Oppenheimer tells us touching things about R.’s former friend Friederike Meyer, who is now living all by herself in Jugenheim, devoting herself entirely to bringing up her two children.