R.’s birthday; my little gifts—majolica bowls with flowers, a handsome polar bear—give him pleasure. Various visits, and many congratulatory telegraphs, among them a gracious one from the King. In the evening we inaugurate the restaurant for the artists, which R. does in the gayest humour (he concludes the matter with: “Hear, you people!”). The children also present; a fair prospect, and a cheerful sky.
Revised English translation by Jo Cousins [© Jo Cousins | WAGNER Salon]