not
at all care for the other proposals Duport makes, as by this concert I have
lost both time and money. In haste, your friend,

BEETHOVEN.

377.

TO STEINER & CO.

MY KIND FRIEND,--

Be so good as to read the enclosed, and kindly forward it at once to the
authorities.

Your servant and _amicus_,

BEETHOVEN.

378.

TO HERR TOBIAS PETER PHILIP HASLINGER.

The horn part and the score are shortly to follow. We are immensely
indebted to you. Observe the laws. Sing often my Canon in silence,--_per
resurrectionem_, &c. Farewell!

Your friend,

BEETHOVEN.

379.

TO HASLINGER.

Have the goodness to send me my shoes and my sword. You can have the loan
of the "Eglantine" for six days, for which, however, you must give an
acknowledgment. Farewell!

Yours,

BEETHOVEN.

380.

TO HASLINGER.

Baden, June 12.

MY GOOD FRIEND,--

Something worth having has been put in your way; so make the most of it.
You will no doubt come off with a handsome fee, and all expenses paid. As
for the March with Chorus [in the "Ruins of Athens," Op. 114], you have yet
to send me the sheets for final revision, also the Overture in E flat ["To
King Stephen," Op. 117]; the Terzet [Op. 116]; the Elegy [Op. 118]; the
Cantata ["_Meeresstille und glueckliche Fahrt_," Op. 112]; and the Opera.
Out with them all! or I shall be on very little ceremony, your right having
already expired. My liberality alone confers on you a larger sum than you
do on me. I want the score of the Cantata for a few days, as I wish to
write a kind of recitative for it; mine is so torn that I cannot put it
together, so I must have it written out from the parts. Has the Leipzig
musical paper yet retracted its lies about the medal I got from the late
King of France?

I no longer receive the paper, which is a shabby proceeding. If the editor
does not rectify the statement, I shall cause him and his consumptive chief
to be _harpooned_ in the northern waters among the whales.

Even this barbarous Baden is becoming enlightened, and now instead of
_gutten Brunn_, people write _guten Brun_. But tell me what are they about
in Paternoster Street?

I am, with all esteem for yourself, but with none for the barbarian
Paternoster-Gaessel,

Your devoted, _incomparativo_,

B----N.

Paternoster-Gaessel _primus_ will no doubt, like Mephistopheles, emit fiery
flames from his jaws.

381.

TO M. DIABELLI.

SIR,--

Pray forgive my asking you to send