Dear Ries!
Please
be so kind as to copy out this Andante [Anderson footnote:
… the great Andante with variations of the Kreutzer sonata,
Op. 57 … or WoO 57], even if you do it badly. I must
send it off tomorrow, and -- in any case, since Heaven knows what
may happen to it, I should like to have it -- copied -- But I
must have it back at about one o'clock tomorrow -- The
reason why I am worrying you with it is -- that one of my copyists
has other important things to copy and the other is ill.