Your letter was received by me with pleasure. I thank you for the article in the A. M. Z., only I wish that when occasion offers, you would make a correction in respect of Reichardt, I was not at all engaged by R., on the contrary, the Chief Chamberlain of his Majesty, the King of Westphalia, Count Truchsess-Waldburg, conveyed to me the offer of ~First Chapelmaster~ of H. R. H., the King of Westphalia. This offer was made ~before Reichardt came to Vienna~ and he was surprised, as he himself said, that nothing of it had reached his ears. ~R. took all manner of pains to dissuade me from going there.~ As I have besides very many reasons for questioning the character of Mr. R.--and he may, for political reasons, perhaps have communicated this to you--I think that I am entitled to the greater credence and that on an occasion which might easily be created, you will print the truth about the affair--~since it is important as touching my honor~. Also by next post I shall send you all three works, the ~oratorio~, ~opera~, ~mass~--and ask no more for them than 250 florins in convention money--I do not believe that you will complain at this--I cannot find the letter just now in which Simrock offered 100 florins, convention money, for the mass, here too I could get this sum and even something more from the Chemical Printing Co., for them; I am not hoaxing you, that you know--I nevertheless send you all three works because I know that you will not take advantage of the fact. Make the inscriptions in French as you please. Next time you shall receive a few lines about the other matter--it is impossible to-day. Your most obedient Friend and Servant Beethoven. It need not be a pompous retraction, but the truth ought to be made plain. Do not forget the ~First Chapelmaster~, I laugh at such things, but there are ~Miserables~ who know how to dish up such things in the manner, of the cook. The allusions to a tour in the letters to Gleichenstein and Breitkopf and Härtel, and the provision made in the Agreement for the composer’s temporary absence from Austria, acquire a particular significance from one of the notes of Röckel’s conversation, namely: “Beethoven in those days was full of the project of traveling, and a plan was marked out of visiting the German cities, then England and finally ~Spain~; upon which last Röckel laid great stress. He was to have accompanied Beethoven; but he could not leave Vienna, on account of having so many of his brothers and sisters[66] sent to him to care for.” [Sidenote: RELATIONS WITH FRANZ OLIVA]