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 ��33. To Elector Frederic, January 25, 1521, p. 106.

34. To Staupitz, February 9, 1521, p. 108.

35. To Spalatin, March 19, 1521, p. no.

36. To Spalatin, April 14, 1521, p. in.

37. To Cuspinian, April 28, 1521, p. 114.^ ^ To Cranach, April 28, 1521, p. 119.

��APPENDIX II,

SOME LOST LUTHER LETTERS

In the correspondence of Luther and his friends we often hear of letters which are not now extant. It would serve no purpose to register all these, but a few of which particularly interesting details are known may be mentioned.

1. DR. JOHN FLECK* TO LUTHER.

E. Kroker: Luthers Tischreden in der Matthesischen Sammlung, no. 562. (Steinlausig, late in 1517)

Of this letter Luther tells us in 1542: "I like Fleck. He is a man full of comfort and his words are consolatory. He wrote me a letter, a splendid one, immediately after I had published my Theses. I would give ten gulden to have it now. Its purport was about as fol- lows: *Venerable Doctor, proceed! Press forward! These papal abuses always displeased me, too, etc' The monks were also angry at him, for he had said to those at Steinlausig: There is a man who will do something.' He never said a mass, which was a good sign."

2. MARTIN LUTHER TO DR. HERMAN.

In the Historical Manuscripts Commission, vol. ix., part ii., p. 413, London, 1884, is the following entry: "Letter of Martin Luther to Dr. Herman, Latin, accompanying one of the writer's principal peti- tions, in which Herman is enjoined to believe no calumnious report of the writer, but to consider all things done by him as having been done in good faith." There is no date, but it is bound in a volume of manuscripts between July and November, 1519. The original is in the possession of Mrs. Alfred Morrison of London. Efforts to see it while I was there proved unavailing. Among the possible addressees are Antony Hermann, Nicholas Hermann, Hermann Busch, Hermann Muhlpfort and Hermann Tullich. None of these, however, was a doc- tor, and none is otherwise likely. Until the original can be ex- amined any conjecture must be made with reserve. It is not impossible that the letter is really to Dr. Henning Code, always referred to as

iThe text of thia letter as printed in Enders is poor. The correct form is given in my Luther, p. 472.

'Fleck was Prior of the Franciscans at Steinlau&ig. At the opening of Wit- tenberg (x5oa) he had preached. On htm, Kostlin-Kawerau, i. 80, i63f.

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