The king sends her fifty thalers for her housekeeping and promises her his continued favor.
Inscription: To Doctor Luther's Wittwe. Kings.
Mtt. send her fifty Thaler. Date Coldingen, the 29th Decembris Anno 1546.
Christian 2c. Our most gracious greetings. Honorable and much virtuous, dear special ones! After we reported that you had left Wittenberg for Magdeburg in the present dangerous times, we did not want to refrain from writing to you to avoid our most gracious will and inclination. And when you changed your housekeeping in such a way and
1) Burkhardt, who gives a regest of this letter, considers the letter to be lost, because it cannot be Luther's letter of Nov. 26, 1545 (No. 3274) (because of the thanks for the news). On the other hand, Kolde notes that the letter of April 14 (No. 3203) is meant. We believe that this letter is the answer to both of Luther's letters.
2) we have a special pity, we send you by the present messenger, the old Silesian, for your housekeeping, fifty thalers, which you want to accept as a favor and note our most gracious inclination from it. We also want to be your gracious lord at all times and know how to show ourselves to you. We do not want to behave such graciously and are inclined to you with grace and all good. Datum ut supra. 3)