Great and enraged Poet ! ! ! ! ! !
Give
up Reichardt - and use my notes for your poetry. I promise you
that if you do this you will not be in need - Immediately after
my concert which, to counterbalance its purpose of putting some
money into my pocket, is robbing me of a good deal of my time,
I will go to you, and then we will start work on the opera at
once - and it will soon ring in our ears - That reminds me, when
we meet we must discuss the matter about which you are justified
in voicing your complaints of me - Should you seriously intend,
however, to let R[eichardt] compose the music for your operatic
text, please let me know this immediately. With kind regards your
most devoted
Beethoven