Assignment. Sorry for short writing and greetings.
From the former Gndische Sammlung 214 at the Wolfenbüttel Library in Schütze, vol. III, p. 141 and in De Wette, vol. V, p. 303.
The highly famous man, Justus Menius, the disciple of Christ, his extremely dear brother.
Grace and peace! You shall, my dear Justus, tell my relative, Johann Schützmeister, that I have not yet received anything, but will faithfully send what I have received. Having returned here, we are overwhelmed with so much business that there is no room to write any letters to anyone, which both he and you will very easily believe. Greet yours and yours, and especially the nut thief or nut robber, 2) your little Timothy, the exceedingly pleasant boy to us. This is one of the ten letters, 3) which I wrote this evening and still have to write: take it for the best that it is shorter than you wanted and I wanted. Those 14 pennies may go/) like many other robberies go, of which
1) A gap is indicated here at De Bet.
2) Instead of nucicrapam, which does not exist, we have assumed nucirapacem.
3) Only two are reserved for us (De Wette).
4) Cf. no. 2696.
the whole world is sucked dry. Fare well in the Lord and pray for me. Friday after Bartholomew [27 Aug.] 1540.
Your Martin Luther.
No. 2704.