N.B. This is the first surviving conversation book after a break of roughly 20 months.

[Blatt 1r]

NEPHEW KARL [possibly in a restaurant in the Josephstadt for midday dinner; early afternoon, possibly on Pentecost Monday, May 27]: Boucher has also created a sensation here [in Vienna]. // Has he reached the level of Mayseder? // You should travel. //

What does spinach cost? // You just need to insist on it; he must give it to you. //

JOHANN VAN BEETHOVEN [presumably at Beethoven's apartment in the Landstrasse No. 271; late afternoon or evening, possibly on Pentecost Monday, May 27]: But you must pay another 20 fl. C.M. for this room. // You should get out of the apartment entirely and go with us to the country. //

Have you already eaten? Do you want to drink coffee? [//]

[Blatt 1v]

BEETHOVEN: No. 61. //

JOHANN VAN BEETHOVEN [continuing]: Tomorrow, I’ll speak with [publisher] Steiner concerning the Mass [Missa solemnis], and with Artaria, if it is all right with you. //

THERESE VAN BEETHOVEN [interjecting]: Then one must await a good opportunity to find a music lover for it. //

JOHANN VAN BEETHOVEN: Yesterday [possibly Pentecost Sunday, May 26] we really enjoyed ourselves in the Brühl. //

NEPHEW KARL [possibly at a restaurant near Blöchlinger's Institute; possibly ca. 2 p.m. on Thursday (school visitation day), May 30]: My examination went very well, but the professor of religion, about whom I’ve already told you that he is embittered toward the institute, called upon me 3 times, one after another, but it always turned out well. [//]

[Blatt 2v]