To the highly-honored man, Herr Hierronymous Baumgaertner, patrician and council member in Nuernberg, his special friend.
There is nothing current that I can write about only that I want to request that you do not find it burdensome to take care of this box for Herr Ludwig Senfl. He himself, for that matter, has named you to be the intermediary if there was something that I wanted to write to him. I am sending him a letter and several pamphelts as a present and a sign of thankfulness. All of the news must be awaited from you. Be it well you and all you of yours in Christ. Wittenberg on the day of the circumcision of the LOrd (1 Jan.) 1531. Your Martin Luther.
My lord Kaethe respectfully greets you etc.
NOTES: It is still dangerous to be associated with ML. Senfl is still at the cloister. He did some Psalm settings at ML's request. Senfl is a favorite of LCMS organists, I think.
Baumgaertner is a former flame of Kaethe's or so ML thinks.
As ML calls Nuernberg "the eyes and ears of the world" he expects that news should come from there rather than Wittenberg.
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