Melanchthon expects little from the convention at Hagenau. He is still uncertain about his journey. Due to the daily worsening news about the Landgrave's cause, his health had become shaky.
Alls a copy in the archive at Zerbst (by Schreiber's hand with corrections by Jonas, who sent it to Georg von Anhalt on June 17), printed in Kolde, AnaIecta, p. 351.
Hail! There are no great expectations of the Convent at Hagenau, although King Ferdinand, the King of Mainz, the King of Salzburg, the King of Eichstädt and I don't know what others have come together. We suspect that they themselves do not even know what they want to do. There are probable suspicions, for the sake of which some think that the emperor would by no means have called the convention if certain opponents had not also given him hope that we would give in, and some of us had indicated that they desired new unions. I still have doubts about my journey. The weakness of my body and health is increasing, because I hear worse every day about the affair of the Macedonian, the Landgrave of Hesse. And this is what the Meisseners are doing, who are holding the mother 1) captive. Ask God to avert this tremendous danger and trouble. Outside of this I have had nothing new. Be well and happy. June 14, in the year of the Lord 40.
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