End of August or beginning of September 1519.
Translated from Latin.
After waiting almost 17 weeks in vain for a reply from Luther, Dungersheim asks that Luther send a reply through the messenger.
Eternal salvation in the Lord! It is now not only many days but also months, Martin, brother in Christ, that I await your promised answer to the letter I sent you. In the meantime, many of ours have been at the exhibition of your relics 1) and elsewhere in Wittenberg, likewise many of yours have come to Leipzig especially for the Easter Fair 1). I also have no doubt that Doctor Caspar [Güttel] from your order has already been
1) This exhibition took place on Monday, May 9, 1319; the jubilee fair began May 16.
spoke to you about the answer you were to send me, as he had promised me. But even so, I have received nothing, now that almost seventeen weeks have passed. Therefore, eager for your answer to what I sent, I asked the bearer of this, and found him willing to go to you and deliver to me what letters you would give him for me. I therefore ask you, with a benevolent attitude, to finally carry out what you have already promised me (on receipt of my letter). Farewell.
*) This letter is found in the collection of Dungersheim's writings x. 48; then in Aurifaber I, 150d; Löscher's Reformation Acta III, 79; De Wette I, 221; Erlanger Briefwechsel I, 479.
**) This letter is in Dungersheim's collection p. 48; in Löscher, Reformations-Acta III, 79 and in Seidemann's Lutherbriefen p. 7.
530 Br.-W. H, 135. IV. Luther's dispute with Dungersheim. W. XVIII, 655 f. 531