To the highly-honorable man, Herr Johann Fesel, the faithful servant of the Word in Coburg, his brother in the LOrd.
Grace and peace in the LOrd! Christ support and gratify your wife and compensate her with a good birth, my dear Fesel. Meanwhile,you be strong and comfort her and also greet her in my name. (confinement and delivery of a child was no small thing in those days.)If my prayer can accomplish anything, I will not fail to do so. Actually I have pressed faithfully regarding the matter of Rauschner both by letter and orally
to Rietesel but have not yet received an answer. I believe that the great volume of projects at the court, if I am not mistaken in these exciting times, is the reason and presently at the court there are great decisions and movements underway. For this reason I think that Rauschner, to be sure, should not cease to press but rather at another time when the court-personnel are less busy. In regard to the paintings (figuli) I have not forgotten but also seek a more convenient time to have a break from my labors; the little painting (on pottery?) of my daughter which sets on top of the stove and artistically portrays at the same time the face of the father reminds me. Greet your wife and your little Fesel (Feselios). Greet all of ours and pray for me.
Cyriacus is in sorrow because I am opposed to his love and I have expressed my opinion about it. "There's trouble and emergency," before I can extinguish this flame which is burning at both ends. Greet all of yours repeatedly. Christ be with you, Amen. first of December 1530.
NOTES: ML was at a fortress in Coburg from late May to October 1530 staying close by to be in communication with the Diet of Augsburg where he could not be because of the Imperial Ban.
Editors think that Fesel had requested ML to secure a painting probably on a piece of pottery.
Cyriacus Kaufmann is ML's nephew.
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