Most Honoured L[ieutenan]t G[enera]l!
I still need your final advice about the agreement which I mentioned to you. Meanwhile I cannot go out today; and yhet we should like to see the question settled. Would it not be possible for my esteemed Primus of the G[enera]l Staff to invade my premises today, or perhaps tomorrow morning, so that I could discuss the matter with him? I beg him most earnestly to do this. In return for this favour, as often as the L[ieutenan]t G[enera]l is in need, I shall make a note. [Anderson footnote: “One of Beethoven’s favourite puns, i.e. ‘Not’ which means ‘need’, and ‘Note’ which means ‘note’.”]
Your
Contra Ut [Anderson footnote: “Bass C”]
NB. But the discussion would have to last a short half hour.
The Adjutant’s disgraceful behavior has been registered, (but not in the organ register, for, if that were done, what a horrid sound would then be heard!