38.

Milan, Oct. 26, 1771.

MY work being now completed, I have more time to write, but have
nothing to say, as papa has written you all I could have said. I
am well, thank God! but have no news, except that in the lottery
the numbers 35, 59, 60, 61, and 62 have turned up prizes, so if
we had selected these we should have won; but as we did not put
in at all we neither won nor lost, but only laughed at those who
did the latter. The two arias encored in the Serenata were those
of Manzuoli, and Girelli, the prima donna, I hope you may be well
amused in Triebenbach with shooting, and (weather permitting)
with walking.



39.

Milan, Nov. 2, 1771.

Papa says that Herr Kerschbaumer travels with profit and
observation, and we can testify that he conducts himself very
judiciously; at all events he can give a more satisfactory
account of his journey than some of his friends, one of whom said
that he could not see Paris properly because the houses there
were too high. To-day Hasse's opera is to be given; as papa,
however, is not going, I can't go either. [FOOTNOTE: Hasse had
also a festal opera to compose, but Leopold Mozart writes, "I am