"(14) Leopold Mozart to Lorenz Hagenauer, Salzburg
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MAINZ, 3 August 1763

From Schwetzingen we drove to Heidelberg in order to see the castle and the great tun.

On the whole Heidelberg is very like Salzburg, that is to say, as to its situation. The fallen-in doors and walls in teh castle, which are amazing to see, show the sad fruits of the late French wars. In the Church of the Holy Ghost, which is famous in history on account of the struggle between the Catholics and the Calvinists, which led the Electors to transfer their residence to Mannheim, our Wolfgang so astonished everyone by his playing on the organ that by order of the Town Magistrate his name was inscribed with full particulars on it as a perpetual remembrance, After receiving a present of fifteen louis d'or we came on from Schwetzingen through Worms to Mainz.

In Mannheim a French colonel presented a little ring to Nannerl an a pretty toothpick case to little Wolfgang."

from the Letters to Mozart and his family, W. W. Norton & Company, New York, London. 1985