Your Imperial Highness!
Please be so gracious has to have the E minor sonata [Opus 90] sent to me. I needed to for proof-reading –– On Monday I will call on Y.I.H. again in person. The recent events [Anderson footnote: “Undoubtedly Napoleon’s escape from Elba at the end of February.”] necessitate the dispatch as quickly as possible of many works of mine which are being engraved and published. Moreover I am not yet in the best of health –– I do most earnestly beg Y.I.H. to be so gracious as to let me have a few words about your own state of health. I am still hoping to hear something more reassuring, nay rather, soon in the very best news about it.
Your Imperial Highness’s
most obedient and most faithful servant
Ludwig van Beethoven