Ludwig van Beethoven, Billet an Tobias Haslinger, Wien, um den 22. April 1816, Autograph
Beethoven-Haus Bonn, Sammlung H. C. Bodmer, HCB BBr 21
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Beethoven asks Tobias Haslinger, an employee at the publishers S. A. Steiner, to immediately organize the dedication copy of op. 94 for Princess Kinsky. The letter is written in a very friendly and - as with all of Beethoven's letters to Haslinger - joking tone and contains many puns. As always he addresses Haslinger as "Adjutant" and signs "G-s", an abbreviation for "Generalissimus".