Wednesday, 6 January 1875

At last — on Friday and Saturday there will be those questionnaires!
And I hope — this time with some reason — to leave on Sunday.
In the evening we have a small tea — M. and Mme Pelikan, Bihovetz, Mesdames Koulechoff, Azarévitch and Markevitch. Makaroff, readmitted this very morning, amuses everyone by solemnly believing every invention that Walitsky takes pleasure in fabricating.