P.P.
Be so kind as to send me the overture to the Prologue ‘Ungarns Wohltäter [Opus 117]. It must be copied quickly so as to be dispatched to Graz for performance at a concert to be given there for the poor.
I count myself exceedingly fortunate when my art is turned to account for charitable purposes of that kind – So you need only mention this to H.I. Highness our most gracious lord, and surely he will gladly let you have the overture, the more so as you know that the whole property of my small intellectual gifts is also the exclusive property of H.I. Highness – As soon as the overture has been copied, I will return it to His Imperial Highness at once –
Your most devoted servant
Ludwig van Beethoven