The big girls on the ice, first injuries to Lusch’s pride, the little ones playing with their toys, I at my writing desk! … In the afternoon Lusch writes to her father. In the evening our four musicians; R. reads them his letter to the conductor Klughardt [1], which is a model of sympathetic openness. —
Ice Skating in the Court Garden
Source: Historisches Museum Bayreuth
A very nice letter from Richter with a photograph of his fiancee, which gives R. an opportunity to state his theory on marriage—the man should be 40, the woman 20 years old. — We go through a Haydn symphony with very great enjoyment.
[[1] August Klughardt (1847-1902), conductor, from 1873 at the court theater in Neustrelitz.