Since I can’t find the time to see you this morning, I shall go to the Wilder Mann [Anderson footnote: “A tavern or eating-house which Beethoven appears to have visited occasionally.”] in the Prater about noon. I presume that I shall find there not wild men, but lovely graces; and therefore I must first don my armour too – I know that you do not regard me as a sponger, because I can only come to dinner; and so I am coming. If I still find you at home, well and good; if not, I will hasten to the Prater to embrace you.
Friend
Beethoven