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[ Hamburger Litt. u. Krit. Blatter, 1856, No. 72, p. 563.]
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[ Unfortunately Wolfgang's letters to his father are only preserved in anything like completeness up to his visit to Salzburg (July, 1783); after that we have only detached ones. His sister believed, so Nissen says (Vorr., p. XVI.), that the later letters were destroyed by the father, on account of containing allusions to Freemasonry, which is probable enough. There is no sort of evidence that Mozart ever actually neglected his father's correspondence; but it was not in his power to continue to keep a journal such as he had been in the habit of writing while travelling, or such as the daughter kept up after her marriage.]
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[ The firstborn son, Leopold, "der arme dicke fette and liebe Buberl," as he is called in a letter (December 10, 1783), died in the same year.]
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[ On January 19, 1786, L. Mozart wrote to his daughter that the Archbishop had opened a letter of Wolfgang's, but without finding anything in it.]
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[ Nissen, p. 476.]