the copyists having so much to write this week. I think therefore you will
perhaps appoint next Saturday for our _resurrection day_, and by that time
I expect to be entirely recovered, and better able to conduct, which would
have been rather an arduous task for me to-morrow, in spite of my
good-will. On Friday I do hope to be able to go out and inquire for Y.R.H.

[K.]


275.

TO THE ARCHDUKE RUDOLPH.

1819.

(_A Fragment._)

The day when a High Mass of mine is performed in honor of the solemnities
for Y.R.H. will be the most delightful of my life, and God will enlighten
me so that my poor abilities may contribute to the splendors of that solemn
occasion. I send you the Sonata with heartfelt gratitude; I think the
violoncello part is wanting,--at least I could not lay my hand on it at the
moment. As the work is beautifully engraved, I have taken the liberty to
add a published copy, and also a violin quintet. In addition to the two
pieces written in my hand on Y.R.H.'s name-day, there are two more; the
last a grand _Fugato_, so that it forms one great sonata,[1] which is now
shortly to appear, and has been long _in my heart_ dedicated to Y.R.H. _The
recent occurrence connected with Y.R.H.[2] is not in the slightest degree
the cause of this._ I beg you will forgive my bad writing. I implore the
Lord to bestow His richest blessings on Y.R.H., whose love of humanity is