#1786-To Justus Jonas

To his Superior in the LOrd, Herr Justus Jonas, the very faithful Archbishop of Saxony.
Grace and peace! If this Laurentius, gate-keeper of the church outside of Eilenburg, finds you, my dear Jonas, provide him pleasingly with some sort of recommendation writing which he is continually wanting. I have flooded the Prince with these sort of writings so that I am ashamed. If this likely is not useful or advisable, dismiss him with good encouraging words. "There's too much of this sort of thing!" And we are forced, especially I, to give away more than we have,although the LOrd richly recompences it.Be it right well with you in the LOrd and pray for me. The 18th of April 1531. Martin Luther.
NOTES: JJ is evidently at the Prince's court in Torgau. Perhaps ML thinks of him as "Archbishop" because of his leading role in the Visitation of Electoral Saxony in 1529.
Eilenburg is close to the eastern border of Saxony on the Mulde,near Leipzig. the Church is likely the Marienberg Kirche near Eilenburg where this Laurentius was custodian-"Kuester".