291.
TO HERR HASLINGER,--ADJUTANTERL.
I request the Adjutant to lend me the score of the Overture in E flat, which I will return as soon as the performance is over. I also beg he will be so good as to send me Kirnberger's work to supply the place of mine, as I am at this moment giving lessons in counterpoint, and have been unable to find my own manuscript amid my confused mass of papers. Yours,
MI CONTRA FA.
292.
TO TOBIAS,--ADJUTANT.
MOST WORTHY ADJUTANT,--
I have made a bet of ten florins, W.W., against the truth of your having been obliged to pay a compensation of 2000 florins to Artaria for the new edition of Mozart's works, which have been again and again engraved and sold everywhere. I really wish to know the truth on this subject, for I cannot possibly believe what is said. If it be the fact that you have been so unhandsomely treated, then Ah, dolce contento must pay the ten florins. Send me a true report. Farewell; be a good Christian. Your
BEETHOVEN.
293.
TO THE ARCHDUKE RUDOLPH.
Vienna, April 3, 1820.
YOUR ROYAL HIGHNESS,--