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Bologna, Sept. 8, 1770.

NOT to fail in my duty, I must write a few words. I wish you
would tell me in your next letter to what brotherhoods I belong,
and also let me know the prayers I am bound to offer up for them.
I am now reading "Telemachus," and am already in the second
volume. Good-bye for the present! Love to mamma.



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I HOPE that mamma and you are both well, but I wish you would
answer my letters more punctually in time to come; indeed, it is
far easier to answer than to originate. I like these six minuets
far better than the first twelve; we often played them to the
Countess [Pallivicini, at whose country-seat, near Bologna,
father and son spent some months]. We only wish we could succeed
in introducing a taste for German minuets into Italy, as their
minuets last nearly as long as entire symphonies. Forgive my bad
writing; I could write better, but I am in such a hurry.



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