We have fixed things
up with Schuppanzigh -- He is coming -- and is delighted to come.
He will write to you about this himself or he may go to see you
-- You can have the musical performances every fortnight and you
may fix the day for Schuppanzigh; Zmeskall too has helped to make
this arrangement with S[chuppanzigh] in his kindly, indefinite
way - otherwise everything would have been different - Thus the
contradictions in me have been resolved - As to the music for
net Wednesday, I should prefer you either to have no musical performance
or to keep to Schlesinger for the time being, so that the hatred
of those people may not be directed against me who am innocent
- My brother who has an appointment at the Bank Cash Office, requested
me yesterday to beg you to allow him to pay his respects to you,
for he would like to ask you to recommend him in some quarter.
I don't know what it is all about. But I merely add that if you
can perhaps help my brother in some way, then I too recommend
him to you. Although wicked people have spread a rumour that he
does not treat me honourably, yet I can assure you that all that
is not true, but that he has always looked after my interests
with sincere integrity. He used to have something uncouth in his
behavior and that is what put people against him. But he has completely
lost all that as the result of some journeys he has undertaken
on behalf of his office; --
So,
dear, kind J[osephine], let me know when he may call on you -
Your
- your - your
Beethoven