Dear Baron!
You promised to let me have a reply about the carriage. I do most earnestly beg you for an answer – If you can’t let me have it today, then do sent it to me tomorrow to Pasqualait’s house on the Mölkerbastei. My servant will be there and he will forward it at once to Baden – As a rule my servant has to be at home from early morning until noon and from three o’clock in the afternoon until seven – Should he not be there, then let the bearer leave your reply with the caretaker – Perhaps too you will find something else in the meantime. Forgive my importunity. Not one of all my other friends is here; and I am quite at sea and absolutely helpless in such matters –
I am off to Baden tomorrow, but shall return to town on Saturday and will then call on you at once –
Your most devoted
Beethoven