Beethoven asks the publisher Haslinger a favour. He will send a package (with the new last movement for op. 130) for the publisher Mathias Artaria to Haslinger in Vienna. As soon as it arrives, Haslinger is to inform Artaria and to hand over the package in exchange for 15 gold ducats. In this way Beethoven wants to avoid having to speak to Artaria personally.
Beethoven is hoping that Haslinger will publish some works which have not yet been published. According to the BGA these are probably the opera Fidelio op. 72, the Cantata "Der glorreiche Augenblick" ("The glorious moment") op. 136 and twelve English Lieder. Beethoven had already sold all of these works to Steiner, Haslinger's predecessor, in 1815. As Beethoven has heard from Holz that Haslinger is planning to "add some things" to the cantata, for which a great price is to be paid. He offers to make his mode of payment "cheap and attractive". In 1837 Haslinger did indeed produce an extensive de luxe edition of the cantata.
