Thank my dear Sister for her services.
I am charmed that she has made you papa with so good a grace.

I fear you won't stop there; but will go on peopling the world"-- one knows not to what extent--"with your amiable race.

Would have written sooner; but I am just returning from the depths of the barbarous Countries; and having been charged with innumerable commissions which I did not understand too well, had no good possibility to think or to write.
"I have viewed all the Russian labors in these parts; have had the assault on the Hagelsberg narrated to me; been on the grounds;--and own I had a better opinion of Marshal Munnich than to think him capable of so distracted an enterprise.

[_OEuvres de Frederic,_ xxvii.

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