ear it away. The miserable state of my
digestive organs, too, can only be restored by medicines and diet, and for
this I have to thank my _faithful_ servants! You will learn how constantly
I am in the open air when I tell you that to-day for the first time I
properly (or improperly, though it was involuntary) resumed my suit to my
Muse. I _must_ work, but do not wish it to be known. Nothing can be more
tempting (to me at least) than the enjoyment of beautiful Nature at these
baths, but _nous sommes trop pauvres, et il faut ecrire ou de n'avoir pas
de quoi_. Get on, and make every preparation for your examination, and be
unassuming, so that you may prove yourself higher and better than people
expect. Send your linen here at once; your gray trousers must still be
wearable, at all events at home; for, my dear son, you are indeed very
_dear_ to me! My address is, "At the coppersmith's," &c. Write instantly to
say that you have got this letter. I will send a few lines to that
contemptible creature, Schindler, though I am most unwilling to have
anything to do with such a wretch. If we could write as quickly as we think
and feel, I could say a great deal not a little remarkable; but for to-day
I can only add that I wish a certain Carl may prove worthy of all my love
and unwearied care, and learn fully to appreciate it.

Though not certainly exacting, as you know, still there are many ways in
which we can show those who are better and nobler than ourselves that we
acknowledge their superiority.

I embrace you from my heart.

Your faithful and true

FATHER.

351.

TO THE ARCHDUKE RUDOLPH.

August, 1823.

I am really very ill, and not suffering from my eyes alone. I intend to
drag myself to-morrow to Baden, to look out for a lodging, and to go there
altogether in the course of a few days. The air in town has a very bad
effect on my whole organization, and has really injured my health, having
gone twice to town to consult my physicians. It will be easier for me to
repair to Y.R.H. in Baden. I am quite inconsolable, both on account of
Y.R.H. and myself, that my usefulness is thus limited. I have marked some
things in the Variations, but I can explain these better verbally.

[K.]

352.

TO THE ARCHDUKE RUDOLPH.

Baden, August 22, 1823.

Your gracious letter led me to believe that Y.R.H. intended to return to
Baden, where I arrived on the 13th, very ill; but I am now better. I had
recently another inflammatory c