August 9. Frau Wilhelmine Sebald, wife of the Royal Prussian Commissioner of Justice, with sister Madame Sommer, of Berlin. August 18. Hr. Fried. Karl von Savigny, Professor, etc., of Berlin. August 19. Hr. Varnhagen von Ense, R. I. Lieutenant v. Vogelsang, of Prague. No hint anywhere appears that Beethoven renewed his intercourse with Tiedge and Countess von der Recke--they had, no doubt, departed before his arrival--nor that a meeting took place between him and any one of those persons who arrived on and between the 1st of August and the 19th of the same month. With Varnhagen,[98] too, the meetings during the sojourn at Teplitz this year seem to have been few and fleeting. On June 9, Varnhagen had reported to Oliva in Vienna concerning the success of his visit to Prince Kinsky. On July 5 Beethoven arrived in Prague in company with Oliva’s friend Willisen. Varnhagen writes to Rahel on July 2: “I am writing after the arrival of Beethoven and Willisen.” As appears from a letter from Beethoven to Princess Kinsky dated December 20, 1812, Beethoven called upon the Prince and received 60 ducats on account. Unfortunately he delayed the definitive settlement of the annuity matter; had he attended to it at once he would have been spared the negotiations which followed the sudden death of the Prince. On July 14th, Beethoven wrote a letter to Varnhagen from Teplitz in which he said: “There is not much to be said about Teplitz, few people and among the few nothing extraordinary, wherefore I live alone! alone! alone!” Three days later Beethoven wrote to Breitkopf and Härtel, promising some corrections in the Mass in C with the words: “We say to you only that we have been here since the 5th of July, how are we?--on that point much cannot yet be said, on the whole there are not such interesting people here as were last year and are few--the multitude seems fewer than few.” [Sidenote: BEETHOVEN MEETS GOETHE] On July 19, Goethe enters Beethoven’s name for the first time among his “visits”--no doubt those made by him. On the same day he writes to his wife, who had gone on to Karlsbad for a cure: Say to His Serene Highness Prince Friedrich, that I can never be with Beethoven without wishing that it were in the ~goldenen Strauss~. A more self-contained, energetic, sincere artist I never saw. I can understand right well how singular must be his attitude towards the world.