We have given a regest of this letter under No. 1916, but now share it completely according to the Erl. Briefw., Vol. IX, p. 219, the text in full.
2) Instead of: ingentibus, to which we cannot make sense, we have adopted urgentibus.
Addendum to the letters from 1531 to 1536.
The original is at Reval in the Rathsarchiv. Printed by Chr. Rein, Beiträge zur Geschichte der Reformation in Reval (Revaler Programm 1830); by F. G. von Bunge in Archiv für die Geschichte Liv-, Esth- und Curland, V, 276; Luther an die Christen zu Riga, Jubiläumsschrift für D. Ulmann, Riga 1866, p. 22; Ripke, Einführung der Reformation in den baltischen Provinzen, 1883, p. 65; O. Waltz in Zeitschrift für Kirchengeschichte, II, 135 and in Erlanger Briefwechsel 1. 6.
To the honorable and wise gentlemen, mayor and council of the city of Reval in Lifflandt, my favorable gentlemen and friends.
Grace and peace in Christ. Honorable, wise, dear lords and friends! Here comes M. Hermannus Gronaw, 1) who is called to be a schoolmaster by your writing. He has requested this letter from me to E. W., therefore I command the same to E. W. and ask that you faithfully promote the school and provide for it sufficiently. For you see that there is a great lack of learned people everywhere, and that it is high time and need that children be raised with diligence, for which office this M. Hermannus is learned and skilled, and will undoubtedly wait well and faithfully where he can have his comfortable entertainment with you, as I assure myself that he shall have no fault with you. May Christ our Lord give his grace to this and to all your doings, that they may be abundantly fruitful to his praise and honor, amen. At Wittemberg, August 7, 1532.
Doctor Martinus Luther.
No. 1927a.