THE SECRETARY TO THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2373, sig. 109-12/18

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87 176 the enigmatic Tsar Alexander and the mighty Bonaparte. From Russia to the Tabagie to Teplite no cannon thunder penetrates, But two-way cure and promenade can the M- nisters inconspicuously negotiate with each other, advise the contingencies in order to playfully bring to an end what a tragic skill of dark or light threads begins to pinch. For a long time everyone after the bright threads and don't let the dark ones spin in! Some already believed to be a künder - and was nevertheless only a time-distributor in the people Lünd. John, the Allerweltswisser, brings the secret council the new Kurlist, in which such Mr. Ludwig van Beethoven is distinguished, compositeur from Vienna, resident in the Gasthsus "Zur Eiche ". Beethoven - yes, that's what this strange correspondence with Bettina was about, as she wrote to him : * Ks is Beét- hoven, in which I forgot the world and yours. "A Countess O'Bonell/would never take away what Bettina von Arnim had to come up with. Beethoven's letter to the secret council, with which he sends him the Rgnont music - and still does not answer it. But now Goethe d m Kompositeur can prove what it means to a mamne of the world. Goethe will visit him in Gasthof * Zur Eiche ". It is good that the secret Council is invited to the table at the Empress's today at noon. In the state dress of blue cloth, with the star on the chest, the secret council gives off a respectable figure, he knows that. He should be in advantage from the beginning.