N.B. Although Heft 26 appears to represent a single day's conversations, Blätter 6r–14r seem to have been filled from the early morning through a long midday dinner beginning at ca. 2 p.m., with Blätter 1r–5v seemingly filled later in the afternoon, including Beethoven's customary visit to a coffee house to read the newspapers. The entries appear here in that chronological order.

[Blatt 6r]

SCHINDLER [presumably at Beethoven's apartment in the Windmühle; ca. 9 a.m. on Tuesday, March 4]: So, this is Herrmann. [//]

HERMANN VON HERMANNSTHAL [continuing from Schindler's introduction]:I’ll make those changes that you deem necessary. //

Please give me something of an idea for the Duet; then I’ll add my thoughts <gladly> with yours concerning what is to be sung. // Perhaps this Duet doesn't need to contain anything other [Blatt 6v] than Minerva's joy, in contrast to Mercury's gloomy warning. //

I know that the invention of a new plot is necessary, but that work will not take place overnight. Here the execution is much quicker than the invention, so I must naturally ask for time to be able to take it home and [Blatt 7r] consider it there. //

Shall I leave the libretto and my lines here for you? Then, I ask that, as soon as you no longer need them, you send them [to me] through Herr Schindler. What do you think about making reference to today's times in Greece? Then censorship would impose its word of command upon it [//]

[possibly interrupted by Schindler:]

[Blatt 7v]

SCHINDLER [still at Beethoven's apartment; no later than ca. 9:30 a.m. on Tuesday, March 4]: <I have come only to excuse myself, that it is impossible for me to go into the City with you in the morning [presumably Wednesday, March 5] because I have a rehearsal at the Theater [in der Josephstadt] at 10 o’clock. Perhaps you would like to go to the tailor's in the afternoon.> //

[Schindler departs.]

[Blatt 8r]

HERMANN VON HERMANNSTHAL [continuing]: I believe that [we] should present in public only something that is very certain, if not, at the same time, sending something great into the world. I may not be dissuaded from this conviction.