Footnotes

¹ This entry duplicates that on p. 94 (December 28, 1908). A possible sequence of events is that Schenker first entered it here in ink, then transferred the entry to p. 94 (coupled with the entry given below for January 5), which is all in pencil, finally returning to p. 95 to draw a pencil line through this entry. (It could also be explained in reverse.) At the foot of p. 95, he also pasted a cut fragment in his own handwriting (with blue-crayon writing mostly cut off and indecipherable), which reads: "?28. 12. Messina / Goethe bescheidet sich mit geschriebenem Ausgrab[ungen] im XXV. Jahr.!" ("December 28? Messina / Goethe makes do with written excavations in his twenty-fifth year!") — Goethe made a forty-day trip to Sicily ‒ but he was in his thirty-eighth year. Four years earlier, an earthquake had severely damaged the harbor at Messina.