small and insignificant one, but the portraitof the saintly I hope you will appreciate, not solely because of the thingitself, but for the sake of the feelings which prompted me to send it,as 1 wish you well from the bottom of my heart.
May you be happy in Christ.
V., after making peace with I.,summoned the Evangelical and Catholic theologians to Februaryto try to find a basis of agreement.
John Frederick of Saxony,Philipof Hesse, etc.
He had delightful intercourse with Farel and he found an importantally.Herzog George of Saxony died this year, and Luther had the pleasureof establishing the Reformation in Leipsicunder his brother
The question of Philipof Hesse's double marriagealso came up, and he succeeded in so far gaining the Reformers* consent thereto,to the griefof the Elector, that Melanchthon witnessed the ceremony in Brandenburg,whose mother was
Luther's intimate friend, introduced the Reformation into his Electorate this year.
Luther sends some new exegetical writings.
I have reallynothingto say, dear Amsdorf, but could not let the messenger departwithout a letter.
Much is beingsaid about the Emperor's arrival.
It is amusingto hear the Papacy,that great martyr, boasting in her perilouspositionof her deliverer.
Aleander, not a cheese merchant, like the monks, but a trafficker in kings,is running about takingkings captive. May God render his attempts abortive.
I herewith send the annotations on St. Matthew, a mutilated pieceof work, which the printershave very properlyprinted on torn and stained paper.
I send it to you because you always say that you