symmetrical. Papa has just told me that the loveliest flowers are
being carried past at this moment. That I am no wiseacre is
pretty well known.

Oh! I have one annoyance--there is only a single bed in our
lodgings, so mamma may easily imagine that I get no rest beside
papa. I rejoice at the thoughts of a new lodging. I have just
finished sketching St. Peter with his keys, St. Paul with his
sword, and St. Luke with--my sister, &c., &c. I had the honor of
kissing St. Peter's foot at San Pietro, and as I have the
misfortune to be so short, your good old

WOLFGANG MOZART

was lifted up!



10.

Rome, April 21, 1770.

CARA SORELLA MIA,--

Pray try to find the "Art of Ciphering" which you copied out, but
I have lost it, and know nothing about it. So pray do write it
out again for me, with some other copies of sums, and send them
to me here.

Manzuoli has entered into a contract with the Milanese to sing in