MY DEAR FRIEND,--
You would really do me great injustice were you to suppose that negligence prevented my sending you the tickets; I assure you that it was my intention to do so, but I forgot it like many other things. I hope that some other opportunity may occur to enable me to prove my sentiments with regard to you. I am, I assure you, entirely innocent of all that Duport has done, in the same way that it was he who thought fit to represent the Terzet [Op. 116] as new, not I. You know too well my love of truth; but it is better to be silent now on the subject, as it is not every one who is aware of the true state of the case, and I, though innocent, might incur blame. I do not at all care for the other proposals Duport makes, as by this concert I have lost both time and money. In haste, your friend,
BEETHOVEN.
377.
TO STEINER & CO.
MY KIND FRIEND,--
Be so good as to read the enclosed, and kindly forward it at once to the authorities.
Your servant and amicus,
BEETHOVEN.
378.
TO HERR TOBIAS PETER PHILIP HASLINGER.
The horn part and the score are shortly to follow. We are immensely indebted to you. Observe the laws. Sing often my Canon in silence,--per resurrectionem, &c. Farewell!
Your friend,
BEETHOVEN.