Perhaps plenary indulgence may then be granted.

376.

POUR M. DE HASLINGER, GENERAL MUSICIEN ET GENERAL-LIEUTENANT.

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.

379.

TO HASLINGER.

Have the goodness to send me my shoes and my sword.  You can have the loan of the “Eglantine” for six days, for which, however, you must give an acknowledgment.  Farewell!

Yours,

BEETHOVEN.

380.

TO HASLINGER.

Baden, June 12.

MY GOOD FRIEND,—­

Something worth having has been put in your way; so make the most of it.  You will no doubt come off with a handsome fee, and all expenses paid.  As for the March with Chorus [in the “Ruins of Athens,” Op. 114], you have yet to send me the sheets for final revision, also the Overture in E flat ["To King Stephen,” Op. 117]; the Terzet [Op. 116]; the Elegy [Op. 118]; the Cantata ["Meeresstille und glueckliche Fahrt,” Op. 112]; and the Opera.  Out with them all! or I shall be on very little ceremony, your right having already expired.  My liberality alone confers on you a larger sum than you do on me.  I want the score of the Cantata for a few days, as I wish to write a kind of recitative for it; mine is so torn that I cannot put it together, so I must have it written out from the parts.  Has the Leipzig musical paper yet retracted its lies about the medal I got from the late King of France?

I no longer receive the paper, which is a shabby proceeding.  If the editor does not rectify the statement, I shall cause him and his consumptive chief to be harpooned in the northern waters among the whales.