BEETHOVEN 200 YEARS AGO TODAY: Thursday, July 15, 1824 (approximately)

Ludwig reads the newspapers and copies an advertisement for stitched bed quilts in the English style. [This advertisement appears in the Intelligenzblatt for both July 13 and 15, at 49 and 59 respectively, so this note might be made either day.]

Advertisement for quilts in the English Style, Intelligenzblatt 160 at 59.

Karl notes that he has the new ones [possibly vests] from last summer.

Housekeeper Barbara Holzmann indicates that to make such a stitched quilt would require 7 ells of stitched fabric, at 1 florin 30 kr. per ell, for a flat total of 10 florins 30 kreutzers. [Holzmann’s multiplication skills appear to be substantially better than Ludwig’s.]

Presumably Beethoven’s patron, Archduke Rudolph, follows through on his announced plans and proceeds to Baden from the City of Vienna, as outlined in the report of today’s Wiener Zeitung (Nr.160) at 671.