BEETHOVEN 200 YEARS AGO TODAY: Monday, July 12, 1824

Beethoven, back in Penzing, continues his errand and shopping list at a coffee house in the afternoon.

+Imperial coins, ducats, 3 3/4 per cent rate.
There is however, still another difference.
A beautiful little kerchief.
+Shoemaker: make boots. [These may be the long-legged boots that Karl asked for a few days previously.]

+In case of thunderstorms, conductor [lightning rod] may not be closed (2) iron cable (1) weaker. [Notes from an article in the Miscellaneous News section of the July 12 Wiener Zeitung Nr.157 at 658, concerning the proper installation of lightning rods.]

+Straw hat.
+House number: Ungargasse.
+If one turns himself left in the morning, then one has [the light] in front of himself at noon, one turns himself right at the left hand in the evening. [This memorandum is a reminder of how to position himself at his writing desk in order to the get the best light at various times of the day. When he wrote it originally, he had left and right reversed, and corrected them.]

Conversation Book 73, 10v-11r.

Beethoven most likely begins packing up his belongings to move them to Baden bei Wien in a few days.