Note 104 — Chapter XII
Henry Edward Krehbiel translation
An album once owned by Amalie Sebald contains this inscription:
Ludwig van Beethoven Den Sie, wenn Sie auch wollten, Doch nicht vergessen sollten. Teplitz, August 8, 1812.
The couplet might be rudely translated:
Whom, even if you would Forget, you never should.
“At that date,” says Thayer, Beethoven “was not in Teplitz; the 1812 should doubtless be 1811, and was probably added long afterwards by some one who knew nothing of their meeting the previous year.”