Here, dear false poet, is the bill for the song. [Anderson footnote: “Probably the song ‘Germania (WoO 94)…”] I paid 15 kreuzers a sheet myself, but as the theatre is a fool and as poor as a church mouse (I too am a weakling), I shall be satisfied with 13 kreuzers. All good wishes, poet and thinker. Forgive me, but the paper is no Jew; all the sharp-edged tools are in the country. –
In haste, your
Beethoven