London, 28 June 1764
[Extract]
Monsieur!
I have much pleasure in informing you that I have again deposited with the bankers Loubier et Tessier a small sum of 100 guineas, which I could arrange to be paid to someone at Salzburg who might wish to use it in this country.
At the end of next week we are going to Tunbridge, about thirty English miles from London, a distance which can be covered by the mail coach in three or four hours, for an English mile is not more than a German quarter of an hour. There are wells there and it lies in a corner between the east and the south. In July and August many of the nobility assemble in Tunbridge, for now nobody who has means and leisure remains in London.
On Friday, June 29th, that is, on the Feast of St. peter and St. paul, there will be a concert or benefit at Ranelagh in aid of a new stablished Hopital de femmes en couche and whoever wishes to attend it must pay five shillings entrance. I am letting Wolfgang play a concerto on the organ at this concert in order to perform thereby the act of an English aptriot who, as far as in him lies, endeavours to further the usefulness of this hospital which has been established pro bono publico. That is, you see, one way of winning the affection of this quite excetional nation.
I send greetings, and so do my wife and nannerl and little Wolfgang, who is always thinking of Salzburg.
I am
Your old
Mozart
From the Letters to Mozart and his family, W. W. Norton & Company, New York, London. 1985
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