Dear Tr[eitschke]!
I hope to cut short the affair by sending Herr von Schreyvogel a copy of this letter –– but nothing has been done.
You see that this Fuss can attack me in all the papers, if I cannot produce something in writing against him, or if you –– or the Theatrical Directors do not undertake to come to an agreement with him. On the other hand the question of my contract for the opera has also not yet been settled.
I request you to send me a reply, particularly about Fuss’s letter. Before the judgment seat of art the question would be easily decided. But in this affair such is not the case, a fact which, although one would gladly think so, can be fully allowed for.
In haste, your friend
Beethoven