Surely
no proof is necessary -- of how gladly I would have gone to you
today -- but -- only an overwhelming amount of work has prevented
me -- and, moreover, the fact that I didn't get home -- last night
until half past two -- You we're so very sad yesterday, dear J[osephine]
-- am I really unable to influence you? -- although you
have so great an influence on me -- and make me so happy
-- do not give in so much too your tendency to be sad, four indeed
it hurts me to see you thus --and the more so when one
does not know how or in what way one can help -- Here are
your -- your -- Andante [WoO 57] -- and the sonata
[Anderson footnote: "Probably the Walstein sonata, Op.
53, or … the Kreutzer sonata for violin and piano,
Op. 47"] -- do put away the figured bass --you
don't need it -- wait until sometime when I am no longer near
you -- then in the name of Heaven study it with a pedagogue
-- I am coming to you tomorrow evening, provided nothing else
prevents you from seeing me? -- If you want to
go to your Tante F [Anderson footnote: Elizabeth von Finta
… a sister of Josephine's father] -- first,
let me know this tomorrow morning, and then I shan't come until
about nine o'clock in the evening; and then you will have
the advantage of seeing two interesting persons in one
evening, for instance, a certain N [Anderson footnote: "Possibly
Sigismund Neukomm … from Salzburg, one of Haydn's favourite
pupils… or, possibly, J. Neugass, who painted a portrait
of Beethoven for the Brunsvik family in 1806, or perhaps
Nikolaus Zmeskall] -- and myself -- All good wishes, angel
of my heart.