To: [Herr Frech ?]
[Anderson footnote: “…recipient…may have been this tradesman mentioned in Letter 176”]
Vienna, 1815

 

       Perhaps it would be possible, my most esteemed friend, for you to give my servant an order for two fathom cords of hard wood, to be delivered tomorrow morning – In haste and asking you to forgive me,

                                                                          your
                                                                                Beethoven