Forgive me, my dear hammer, for not bringing you the letter for Paris. Just at the moment I am overwhelmed with business of various kinds. So all that I have been able to do is to postpone writing that letter from day today. Tomorrow, however, you will have it, even though it may not be possible for me to visit you in person, as I should so very much like to do. There is another matter which I should There is another matter which I should like to urge you to take up. Perhaps it would be possible for you to Perhaps it would be possible for you to do something for a poor unfortunate fellow, I mean Herr Stoll, a son of the celebrated position. No doubt m No doubt many other people would want to know h would want to know how her fellow creature had met with Miss Fortune, whether through his own fault or through the faults of others. But you and I would never put that question. It is enough that Stoll has been unfortunate and is sitting his sole hopes of salvation on a journey to Paris, because last year because last year he made some influential acquaintances there who might make it easy for him to obtain from that city a professorship in Westphalia. Stoll has spoken to a Herr von Neumann, who has an appointment in the State Chancellery, about leaving for Paris in the company of a courier. But the courier would not take him for less than us sum of 25 louis d’or. Well, my dear fellow, I am asking you whether you would have a word with this Herr von Neumann and entreat him to arrange for a courier to Paris to take charge of Stoll for nothing or for a very small sum. I am telling you all this, because I am convinced that, provided nothing else prevents you from doing so, you will be glad to use your influence on behalf of poor Stoll – I am returning to the country today, but I hope soon to be so as to spend an hour sometime in your company. Until then I send you my compliments and trust that you are still convinced the regard of the regard of
your most devoted servant
Ludwig found Beethoven