Wilhelmina omits all trace of date, as usual; but Dubourgay, in the above Excerpt, probably supplies that defect:-- FRIEDRICH TO HIS MOTHER (Potsdam, December, 1729).
"I am in the uttermost despair.

What I had always apprehended has at last come on me.

The King has entirely forgotten that I am his Son.

This morning I came into his room as usual; at the first sight of me," or at the first passage of Kalkstein-dialogue with me, "he sprang forward, seized me by the collar, and struck me a shower of cruel blows with his rattan.

I tried in vain to screen myself, he was in so terrible a rage, almost out of himself; it was only weariness," not my superior strength, "that made him give up." "I am driven to extremity.