Luther wants to avoid too frequent visitors.
Handwritten in Wolfenbüttel, 6oä. Leimst. 108, 1. 22d; and in Copenhagen, Ms.1383,1. 241. Printed in Oosisstiuus, tom. I, toi. 60 b; in Luclclsus, p. 106; in De Wette, vol. I V, p. 30; and in Erlanger Briefwechsel, vol. VII, p. 361.
Georg Romer yesterday with me and Argula from
1) Carlstadt had settled in Marienhafen for a while in 1529.
Staufen today in the same way. But since I see that this place wants to be visited too much, I have decided, after the example of your Stromer, 2) to wander elsewhere for a while, either ostensibly or seriously, so that the rumor arises that I am no longer staying here. Therefore, you too may henceforth say and write like this with your own, so that they no longer seek me here. This I indicate to you now with a Jonah-like haste. 3) For I will be hidden, and henceforth you also keep me hidden in your words and letters.
Here they begin to persuade us that nothing will come of your Diet, and that the Emperor will be delayed by the cunning and artifice of the bishops, until, after everything is consumed, you will be forced to return home. For it is not expected that the one of Trier and the Count Palatine 4) will be present, and the Emperor, by the artifice of the popes, seeks causes of delay that he will not come to Augsburg. These things and words make me wonder. But the messenger hurries. Farewell in Christ. June 2, 1530.
Your Martin Luther.