BEETHOVEN 200 YEARS AGO TODAY: Sunday, June 19, 1825

Nephew Karl is in Baden with Uncle Ludwig. Karl computes up the charges for various recent expenses: the cloth for the tailor, the subscription and binding costs for the Complete Works of Schiller, books for use with Karl’s tutor, a book of fine paper, and a bundle of quill pens. There was also a charge of 6 florins 15 kreutzers for Shakespeare. [Several editions have been advertised in recent issues of the Wiener Zeitung.] The Schiller Works have gotten expensive; they subscribed to the copperplate edition, and the price went up another florin, which Karl paid, from 4 florins to 5, since the publisher said they couldn’t finish the project otherwise.

The prospective housekeeper can come on Wednesday or Thursday.

Karl then returns to Vienna this afternoon.

Conversation Book 90, 10v-11v.