To: Georg Friedrich Treitschke
Vienna, early April, 1814

Dear Treitschke!

        Have a soprano part copied in the tenor clef for Ehlers who – if I remember rightly – takes the part of the lover in your operetta [Anderson footnote: “Treitschke’s Singspiel ‘Die gute Nachricht’, for which Beethoven wrote the final song ‘Germania’, WoO 94.”] (I refer to the final chorus).

                                                                            In haste your
                                                                                                  Beethoven