History of Frederick the Second, Called Frederick the Great. by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott

Author:John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott [Abbott, John S. C.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Nonfiction, Historical, History, Literary, Biography & Memoir
ISBN: 1230002937298
Publisher: GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS
Published: 2018-11-28T05:00:00+00:00

“Berlin, 1st of March, 1743.

“My dearest Brother,—I know not if it is not too bold to trouble your majesty on private affairs. But the great confidence my sister and I have in your kindness encourages us to lay before you a sincere avowal of our little finances, which are a good deal deranged just now. The revenues, having for two years and a half past been rather small, amounting to only four hundred crowns ($300) a year, could not be made to cover all the little expenses required in the adjustment of ladies. This circumstance, added to our card-playing, though small, which we could not dispense with, has led us into debt. Mine amounts to fifteen hundred crowns ($1125); my sister’s, to eighteen hundred crowns ($1350). We have not spoken of it to the queen-mother, though we are sure she would have tried to assist us. But as that could not have been done without some inconvenience to her, and as she would have retrenched in some of her own little entertainments, I thought we should do better to apply directly to your majesty. We were persuaded you would have taken it amiss had we deprived the queen of her smallest pleasure, and especially as we consider you, my dear brother, the father of the family, and hope you will be so gracious as to help us. We shall never forget the kind acts of your majesty. We beg you to be persuaded of the perfect and tender attachment with which we are proud to be, all our lives, your majesty’s most humble sisters and servants,

Louise Ulrique,

“Anne Amelia.

“P.S.—I most humbly beg your majesty not to speak of this to the queen-mother, as perhaps she would not approve of the step we are now taking.

Ann Amelia.”72

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