To: Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig
Vienna, April 4, 1812

                                                           P.P.

        I urgently require the three songs, poems by Goethe set to music by me [Opus 83]  and dedicated to Princess Kinsky.   So have a copy made for me on fine paper in great haste with all speed, more quickly than is usually possible; and send me the songs by letter post. I cannot reply today to the charming letter you sent me recently.
                          With kind regards, your ever willing
                                                                             Ludwig von Beethoven