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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1864 Excerpt: ...with them to 'Montpellier.' Other interviews and meetings they had, there and further on: Voltaire tried for the Montpellier; but could not. Wilhelmina wintered at Montpellier, without Voltaire ('Thank your stars!' writes Friedrich to her. The Friedrich-Wilhelmina Letters are at their best, during this Journey; here unfortunately very fewf). Winter done, Wilhelmina went still South, to Italy, to Naples, back by Venice: --at Naples, undergoing the Grotto del Cane and neighbourhood, Wilhelmina plucked a Sprig of Laurel from Virgil's Grave, and sent it to her Brother in the prettiest manner;--is home at Baireuth, new Palace ready, August 1755. These points, hurriedly put down, careful readers will mark, and perhaps try to keep in mind. Wilhelmina's Tourings are not without interest to her friends. Of her Voltaire acquaintanceship, especially, we shall hear again. With Voltaire, Friedrich himself had no Holle, Stadt Bayreulh, (Bayreuth, 1833), p. 178. Letters (in (Euvres, Lxxv. 450, 452), Colmar, 23d October, &c, 1754. Wrote to Friedrich about it (one of his first Letters after the Explosion), applying to Friedrich for a Passport or Letter of Protection; which Friedrich answers by Do Prades, openly laughing at it (QZuvres, xxxm. 6). t (Evvres do Frederic, Xxvh. in. 248-273 (September 1754, and onwards). 20th June--7th July 1753. farther Correspondence, or as good as none, for four years and more. What Voltaire writes to him (with Gifts of Books and the like, in the tenderest regretful pathetically cooing tone, enough to mollify rocks), Friedrich usually answers by De Prades, if at all, --in a quite discouraging manner. In the end of 1757, on what hint we shal...

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