[Inside Front Cover]

BEETHOVEN [presumably in his apartment in Mödling]: July, 1820. [//]

BEETHOVEN [presumably at a coffee house, possibly the coach stop in Mödling, reading the Wiener Zeitung of July 6; either Friday, July 7, or Saturday, July 8]:

At Volke’s, [in the] Obere Backerstrasse No. 810; Val. Chr. Fr: Rost, etc., Griechisch-Deutsches Schulwörterbuch, mit durchgängiger Bezeichnung der Quantität [Blatt 1r] zweifelhafter Silben; size 8vo; Gotha, 1820; the subscription price for the whole set is 7 fl. 30 kr. W.W.; the first half is already available.

Mödling is still not rural enough. So many walls—more a small city, therefore also such terrible [Blatt 1v] human rabble.

DIETRICH [in Mödling, possibly encountering Beethoven by accident; probably Friday, July 7, or Saturday, July 8]: By the next art exhibition, I shall sculpt your portrait again, but this time completely life-size. [//] Your head looks particularly good from the front, and it was so appropriate because on one side [was] the Haydn, the other side the Mozart. [//] [Blatt 2r]

The portraits by [English painter Sir Thomas] Lawrence are the best that I have seen by living artists. [//] Fault can be found in everything, if one wants; this way, nothing is brought to perfection. [//] Wachtl took extraordinary joy in your portrait. [//] Wieden, Ankergasse <No. 277;> at the Green Anker. [//] [Blatt 2v]

I was at the building superintendent’s, and he was so stingy that he wanted to pay 10 or 12 fl. for your bust, and that is impossible, since I would have to work on it a week. [//] If the countess were healthy, she would have the bust made in marble without further ado. [//]

An artist named Kisling will now make a bust of our emperor that will be 18 feet high. [//] [Blatt 3r] It's a government like the one in Abdera. [//]

[Sculptor Joseph] Böhm must do everything possible to go to Italy. [//]

Don't take my awkwardness badly. [//] I am very happy to have found you healthy. [//]

Later I shall look at the Bruhl a little. [//]